Deborah Knight

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Deborah Knight is the female nightly TEN-10 television news anchor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She also occasionally reads Ten Late News. She studied at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales where she earned a degree in journalism, graduating in 1993^[1].

She began her career in the media working for the radio station Mix 106.5 in Sydney before accepting a position with the ABC. During her time at the ABC she took on various roles including rural reporting, working for the youth orientated Triple J and hosting the prestigious AM and breakfast programme on Radio National.

She joined Network Ten's press gallery after being discovered by the channel's political editor, Paul Bongiorno. She would regularly host Meet the Press and the Network News before joining George Donikian on the Adelaide news over summer 2000/01 then moving overseas to work at Ten's US Bureau in Los Angeles for three years.

Knight moved back to Australia in November 2004 where she joined Ron Wilson as co-anchor of Channel ten's five o'clock bulletin in Sydney in January 2006 after the controversial departure of Jessica Rowe to the Nine Network^[2].

Preceded by Nikki Dwyer	Ten News Co-host in Adelaide with George Donikian for Summer 2000/01 {{{years}}}	Succeeded by Kelly Nestor
Preceded by Michelle Stone	Ten News US Corresondent with Rahni Sadler {{{years}}}	Succeeded by Leisa Goddard-Roles
Preceded by Jessica Rowe	Ten News Co-host in Sydney with Ron Wilson {{{years}}}	Succeeded by incumbent