Janice Petersen is an Australian television presenter. Currently Petersen is co-host of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) World News Australia alongside Anton Enus.
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Born in 1977 to parents of South African lineage in Sydney, Petersen was raised in Woy Woy on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She lives in Sydney with her partner Julian Hamilton of electronic band The Presets. In 2010, she gave birth to her first child.
Petersen is a graduate from the University of Newcastle after qualifying for the Bachelor of Communication degree.
A sports enthusiast, she participated in the high jump, 100 metre and 200 metre sprints, and netball. She is an avid photographer and has had her photographs published for the 2000 Summer Olympics and street life around Sydney.[1]
A portrait painting by Swiss-born Victorian artist Marc de Jong was named among the finalists in the 2010 Archibald Prize.[2]
She went to work at SBS in 2000 as a freelance staff person and soon was operating the autocue and writing obscure freelance stories, then moved over to ABC in Adelaide, South Australia as a newsreader after landing a bi-media cadetship.[1] Petersen returned to SBS in 2006 as a sports presenter.[3]
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