Jennifer Byrne
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Jennifer Byrne is an Australian print, radio and television journalist.
Jennifer Byrne's early years were spent in South Yarra where she attended St Catherine's School, in Toorak. At 11, she moved to Harkaway in the foothills of Victorian Dandenong Ranges and St Margaret's School in Berwick. She began her career in journalism at age 16 as a cadet at Melbourne's The Age newspaper. At 23 she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent, and later a feature writer.[1]
Byrne's television career began as a reporter on Nationwide. After returning to print media as editorial writer and assistant-editor of the The Age's Monthly Review, in 1981 she moved back to television as a founding reporter on Channel Nine's Sunday Show.[1] On the Sunday Show in 1985 Byrne won a Logie for her story on Paul Keating's tax summit.[2]
From 1986 to 1993 she worked on the Australian current affairs program 60 Minutes.[3] She presented Foreign Correspondent on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 1999 to 2004 before moving to The Bulletin magaine as a columnist.
In 2005 Byrne narrated the ABC mockumentary television show We Can Be Heroes. Since August of 2006, also on the ABC, she became host of First Tuesday Book Club, an Oprah-style panel book review program. In the mid-1990s she was publishing director at Reed Books.[4]
[edit] Personal life
Byrne's long-time partner and now husband is Australian comedian and television presenter Andrew Denton; their son, Connor, was born in 1995.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Kent, Simon. "The Guide: Stars on the Way Up", Sydney Morning Herald, John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd, 1987-10-12.
- ^ About Sunday: Our History (Pt 2). Ninemsn. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.
- ^ She then worked as a morning presenter on ABC local radio, Sydney, as publishing director, and for 18 months as fill-in host on 7.30 Report and Lateline. Jennifer Byrne (II). iMDB. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.
- ^ Beaumont, Lucy. "Networking", The Age, John Fairfax Holdings Limited, 2006-05-18. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.
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