Throughout his broadcasting career, Jesse Cox worked for Sydney's
FBi Radio,
ABC Radio National, and was head of original content at
Audible's APAC office. In 2012, Cox also formed his own company,
Creative Nonfiction to explore digital storytelling. Cox's 2012
radio documentary for Radio National's 360documentaries,
Keep Them Guessing, won the Directors' Choice Award in the 2013
Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Cox's radio documentary
The Real Tom Banks won the Best Documentary - Silver Award at the 2014
Third Coast International Audio Festival. This international award for creative audio works was judged by
This American Life presenter,
Ira Glass. Other radio programs and podcasts Cox worked on include
Radiotonic,
This is About,
All the Best and
Long Story Short. Cox also created the documentary theatre show
Wael Zuaiter Unknown, which he performed live as part of the 2014
Next Wave Festival.
The Sydney Morning Herald called Cox
"a storyteller of great sensitivity and intelligence" in their review of this show. Cox created geo-locative smartphone audio works such as
Ghosts of Biloela, which was shortlisted for the 2017
NSW Premier's History Awards in the Multimedia History Prize category and described by the State Library of NSW judges as
"an innovative, contemporary avenue to history...accessible to a broad audience". Cox won the 2017 'Innovation'
Walkley Award for his role as executive producer of the ABC Radio National true-crime
Trace podcast, alongside Rachael Brown and Jeremy Story Carter. In 2017, Director of ABC Radio, Michael Mason, described
Trace as ''"ABC's most successful podcast"''. His work has been included in Next Wave Festival, Art & About, Underbelly Arts and
Sculpture by the Sea. ==Death==