Jennifer Byrne

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Jennifer Byrne

Jennifer Byrne is an Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n print, radio and television journalist.

Byrne was educated at St Margaret's School, Melbourne

St Margaret's School, Melbourne

St Margaret's School is an Independent school, non-denominational, day school with a co-educational primary school and girl's only senior school....
as a boarding student, and began her career in journalism at age 16 as a cadet at Melbourne's The Age
The Age

The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. The Age was founded by three Melbourne businessmen, the brothers John Cooke and Henry Cooke who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s, and Walter Powell....
newspaper. At 23 she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or Pundit who contributes reports to a newspaper, or All-news radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location....
, and later a feature writer.

Byrne's television career began as a reporter on Nationwide. After returning to print media as assistant-editor of the The Ages Monthly Review, in 1982 she moved back to television on Channel 9
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
's Sunday.

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Jennifer Byrne is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n print, radio and television journalist.

Byrne was educated at St Margaret's School, Melbourne
St Margaret's School, Melbourne

St Margaret's School is an Independent school, non-denominational, day school with a co-educational primary school and girl's only senior school....
as a boarding student, and began her career in journalism at age 16 as a cadet at Melbourne's The Age
The Age

The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. The Age was founded by three Melbourne businessmen, the brothers John Cooke and Henry Cooke who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s, and Walter Powell....
newspaper. At 23 she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent
Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or Pundit who contributes reports to a newspaper, or All-news radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location....
, and later a feature writer.

Byrne's television career began as a reporter on Nationwide. After returning to print media as assistant-editor of the The Ages Monthly Review, in 1982 she moved back to television on Channel 9
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
's Sunday. On Sunday in 1985 Byrne won a Logie for her story on Paul Keating
Paul Keating

Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia. He came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of Australia in the Bob Hawke government from Australian federal election, 1983....
's tax summit.

From 1986 to 1993 she worked on the Australian current affairs program 60 Minutes. She has presented Foreign Correspondent on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
(ABC).

In 2005 Byrne narrated the ABC mockumentary
Mockumentary

Mockumentary , is a genre of film and television, or a single work of the genre. Although a mockumentary may be one of the comedy genres, serious mockumentaries also exist....
television show We Can Be Heroes
We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year

We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year is an Australian mockumentary TV series created, written and starring Chris Lilley and directed by Matthew Saville....
. Since 2006, also on the ABC, she has hosted First Tuesday Book Club
First Tuesday Book Club

First Tuesday Book Club is an Australian television show that discusses books ostensibly in the style of a domestic Book discussion club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it uses the panel format made popular in The Glass House with two regular members ? book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy ? and two guest...
, a panel book review program, alongside regular commentators Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy

Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian writer, Presenter, television producer and former television actress. She is the granddaughter of Frank Hardy, author of Power Without Glory, and the grandniece of comedian Mary Hardy....
and Jason Steger
Jason Steger

Jason Steger is a Homosexual-born Australia journalist, working in both print and film media. He is currently the literary editor of the Melbourne broadsheet The Age and one of three regular commentators on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's First Tuesday Book Club....
. In the mid-1990s she was publishing director at Reed Books.

In 2008 Byrne joined ABC NewsRadio
ABC NewsRadio

ABC NewsRadio is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio service devoted to delivering live and 24-hour news updates and information. The service is available on a number of broadcasts right around Australia, including AM/FM radio, and online via the Internet....
as a co-host during the evening drive slot (4 - 7pm).

Byrne is married to ABC presenter Andrew Denton
Andrew Denton

Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian comedian and Gold Logie nominated television presenter, and is the host of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation weekly interview program Enough Rope....
with whom she has a son, Connor.