ABC News 24

About

ABC News 24 presenters Kumi Taguchi, Joe O'Brien, Michael Rowland, Miriam Corowa and Virginia Trioli

ABC News 24 is Australia's number one news channel, providing the latest breaking and rolling news coverage.

The free-to-air 24-hour television news channel is designed for all digital platforms enabling you to know what's going on in your world now.

The channel delivers a contemporary, continuous news service that reflects the reputation for quality, trust and independence and embraces all the opportunities enabled by digital technology.

Launched in July, 2010, ABC News 24 offers live rolling news coverage throughout the day and coverage of national occasions and special events. It delivers specialist programs on business, politics, international affairs, sport, as well as on health, rural issues, and the arts.

Only the ABC can provide true, local, national and international news and analysis.

ABC News 24 is available on Channel 24 and is streamed online at www.abc.net.au/abcnews24, on iview and now on YouTube. You can also watch ABC News 24 on your smart phone.

ABC News 24 is integrated into YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, so you can watch live news within your favourite social network.

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Presenters

Virginia Trioli

Virginia Trioli is the co-host of ABC News Breakfast, and has been presenting the program since its launch in November, 2008. A two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia has an established reputation as a radio host, television presenter, news reporter, features writer and columnist, Virginia joined ABC Local Radio in 2001 from The Bulletin, and for eight years hosted the Drive Program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning Program on 702 ABC Sydney. Virginia also presented Lateline on Friday nights in Sydney, and was a regular TV contributor on Insiders and Sunday Arts on ABC TV. Prior to broadcasting Virginia spent nine years as a news reporter, features writer, assistant news editor and columnist in Melbourne. Virginia is the author of 'Generation F: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist' published in 1996.

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Michael Rowland

Michael Rowland has presented ABC News Breakfast since the launch of ABC News 24 in July 2010. Before that Michael spent four years as an ABC correspondent in Washington. He covered the historic US presidential election and was the ABC's Wall Street correspondent during the height of the global financial crisis. Michael has also worked for Lateline as business and economics correspondent and prior to that spent five years covering finance for AM, The World Today, PM, The Midday Report, Inside Business and the 7pm TV News. In the mid 1990s Michael spent five years in the ABC's Parliament House bureau in Canberra filing for Radio News and Lateline.

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Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy has been the national sports presenter on ABC News Breakfast since the program's launch in 2008. He has been a journalist for more than 15 years and has worked at networks Ten and Nine and the ABC. As well as presenting sport, Paul fills in as program co-host, when Michael Rowland is on assignment. A former state league footballer, Paul is also the author of Storm Cloud – Melbourne Storm's Demise and Resurrection and co-author of Hell on the Way to Heaven, which examined the Catholic Church's cover up of sexual abuse. Paul wrote and directed a film called Drug Game, which was a 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival finalist.

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Joe O'Brien

Joe O'Brien is the host of ABC News 24's morning news program and was previously co-host on ABC News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli. Joe has more than 20 years experience in journalism and has been a reporter and presenter with the ABC since 1995. He has presented the 7pm ABC News programs in both Queensland and New South Wales, and regularly presented the national Midday Report on ABC TV. Joe's extensive reporting experience covers everything from drought and floods to sport and politics. He was first based for the ABC in Rockhampton covering rural issues and then in Brisbane, reporting on state politics and major news stories while also presenting news bulletins. Prior to joining the ABC, Joe worked as a newspaper journalist with The Courier Mail in Brisbane and for regional television across Queensland.

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ABC News 24 presenter Joe O'Brien

Ros Childs

Ros Childs is the presenter of ABC News 24's lunchtime news and the midday news on ABC. Ros first worked for the ABC in 2004, as a freelance reporter, before becoming a reporter on Midday News and Business. She presented the renamed news program, The Midday Report in 2005 and was Finance Editor at The 7.30 Report the following year before returning as host of The Midday Report. Ros began her journalism career as a print journalist with the Financial Times Newsletters in London. She then went on to freelance, including as a researcher on TV finance documentaries. Ros worked at CNBC Europe as a reporter and the presenter of a half-hour evening finance program and co-anchor of a three-hour morning TV news program. Ros has also been business correspondent at ITN and presented lunchtime and weekend news bulletins on ITV.

Greg Jennett

Greg Jennett has been reporting politics in the Canberra Parliament House Bureau for more than a decade; first for radio, then television news. A journalist for 20 years, he has covered elections, leadership challenges, Pacific Island affairs, Olympics and has reported on Defence matters through the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He has been Bureau Chief in Canberra for six years and is currently reporting across a wide range of platforms, including as a presenter of the Capital Hill program on ABC News 24.

Peter Wilkins

Peter Wilkins presents Grandstand on ABC News 24, Monday to Friday, at 5.30pm and 7.30pm (AEDT). Peter has worked for the ABC for more than 30 years, as a presenter, commentator and reporter in both television and radio. He has covered numerous Olympic and Paralympic Games, hosted two World Cup finals as the ABC's chief soccer commentator (in 1982 and 1986) and presented the radio rugby league coverage for nine years. He was a regular member of ABC TV's Hopman Cup tennis coverage for almost 10 years. From 2003 to 2010, Peter presented the ABC TV News' national sport segment and was then Network Sports Reporter for programs including the 7pm TV News, The 7.30 Report, Lateline and ABC News 24. In 2008 Peter published, Don't Rock The Boat - the inside story of the Australian women's rowing eight at the Athens Olympics and subsequently won a Walkley Award for the Australian Story feature which had its genesis in the book. In 2012 Peter was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Australian Sports Commission Media Awards.

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John Barron

John Barron hosts The Drum and Planet America on ABC TV. He is the author of three books including Vote For Me about the American presidential election process, and is a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. John has written about US and Australian politics for publications including The Washington Post, and produced and presented documentary features The Party of Reagan and First Stop, Iowa which have screened in the US, China and Australia. As the ABC's Fact Checker, John kept politicians honest during the 2013 and 2016 Federal elections — or at least tried to.

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Julia Baird

Julia Baird shares hosting duties of The Drum on ABC News 24. An author, broadcaster, and journalist, Julia's writing has appeared in a number of publications in the US and Australia. She is currently writing a biography of Queen Victoria for Random House, New York and is also a columnist for The New York Times. Julia was based in the USA from 2005 until 2011, initially for a fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then working at Newsweek as a columnist and deputy editor. Baird began her career in journalism in 1998 at the Sydney Morning Herald and worked as a columnist, editor of the op-ed page, education reporter and election editor. She has hosted the investigative radio program Sunday Profile at the ABC and is the author of Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians which was published in 2004.

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Kumi Taguchi

Kumi is a senior presenter at ABC News 24. Kumi started at the ABC in 1997 at The 7.30 Report and spent time at Triple j, before working for deaf and hearing impaired at various networks. In 2004, Kumi moved to Hong Kong and worked for Star TV, Asia Television and NHK World. She was the editor of a weekly social affairs program, anchored daily news, and produced long-form current affairs features. Kumi moved back to Sydney in 2010 working at SBS and the ABC before settling at the ABC full-time with ABC News 24. Kumi has co-presented ABC News Breakfast and local radio, and is a regular contributor to ABC Digital. She is known to take on unusual adventures: running a desert marathon and spending four days on the ocean in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart, reporting from a 70-foot yacht. Kumi is also a classical violinist and unashamedly drinks decaf.

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Graham Creed

Graham Creed presents the weather in the weekday afternoons and evenings on ABC News 24 and is the weather presenter for the 7pm news on ABC in NSW. He began his weather career in Melbourne at the Bureau of Meteorology in 1985. At the bureau, Graham undertook intense training in weather observation and radar and upper atmospheric conditions. He spent 10 years working in the field with the bureau in Moree, Wagga Wagga and Lord Howe Island.

Beverley O'Connor

Beverley O'Connor presents The World Monday to Friday on ABC News 24 at 10pm. Beverley has been a journalist and presenter with the ABC for more than twenty years, most recently on Australia Network, ABC News Breakfast and on ABC News 24. Previously she has hosted Victoria's Stateline program, state election coverage, as well as ABC Weekend Sport. Her passion for international news has had her based with Australia Network for the past six years, broadcasting into Asia and the Pacific. In 2013, Beverley was an inaugural Asia Pacific Journalism Fellow and travelled and reported from China. Beverley has also worked in radio, spending five years as a presenter on 774 ABC Radio. Prior to the ABC, Beverley worked as a breakfast presenter on commercial radio and had a stint at Channel 7.

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Jane Hutcheon

Jane Hutcheon presents the acclaimed weekly interview program One Plus One on ABC News 24 and ABC. Beginning with the program's launch in 2010, each week Jane sits down with personalities and storytellers from Australia and beyond to discuss their lives, their craft and what drives them. An experienced journalist, presenter and former foreign correspondent, Jane began her career in radio and television in Hong Kong then at SBS Television before joining the ABC. From 1995 to 2001, Jane was the ABC China Correspondent based in Beijing. After returning to Australia, she presented the World At Noon on ABC TV. From 2003-2005 she was the ABC's Middle East Correspondent and then from 2005 to 2008, an ABC Europe Correspondent, based in London. Jane is the author of From Rice to Riches, a book about being an ABC China Correspondent.

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Miriam Corowa

Miriam Corowa co-hosts ABC News 24's Weekend Breakfast program. A broadcaster, reporter, presenter and producer, Miriam has worked in the media since 2000. Pairing an avid interest in Indigenous affairs with general news, she has worked at both SBS and the ABC across programs such as World News Australia and Message Stick. Among the many highlights of her career are her roles co-hosting the ABC's The Apology live broadcast in February 2008, hosting the ABC's Gallipoli Dawn Service broadcasts from 2009 to 2011, and also taking time away from the ABC to join the presenting team on the first season of Coast: Australia which aired on Foxtel's History Channel and BBC2 in 2013-2014. Miriam lives in Sydney. She was born in Adelaide, but calls the New South Wales Tweed Valley home.

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Andrew Geoghegan

Two-time Walkley Award winner Andrew Geoghegan co-presents ABC News 24's Weekend Breakfast program alongside Miriam Corowa. Previously, Andrew was the ABC's Africa correspondent for four-and-a-half years, covering the continent's major stories such as the lawlessness of Somalia and the conflict in Darfur. He worked undercover in Zimbabwe on many occasions, despite being banned from reporting there. Andrew exposed the failure of both the Mugabe Government and United Nations in preventing the cholera outbreak. The story won a Walkley Award and a UN Correspondents Association medal. Andrew's 2009 investigation of the international adoption business in Ethiopia was also recognised with a Walkley Award and led to a change in adoption practices. His work has also been acknowledged with UN Australia Media Peace awards.

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Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is the ABC Online's Chief Political Writer and one of Australia's most popular political commentators. Presenter of the highly acclaimed Kitchen Cabinet series, Annabel is also a regular contributor/presenter to The Drum on ABC News 24. Annabel began her career in 1997 at The Adelaide Advertiser and moved on to cover politics for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, where she was a columnist and sketch-writer. From 2004 to 2007, Annabel was London correspondent for the Fairfax Sunday editions. At the end of 2009, Annabel joined the ABC. She appears regularly on Insiders. Annabel is the author of two books, Losing It: The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition (2005) and Rise of the Ruddbot: Observations from the Gallery (2010). She also wrote the Quarterly Essay 34: Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull (2005).

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Jeremy Fernandez

Jeremy is a journalist, producer, and presenter with ABC News. He is currently presenting Lateline, Monday to Thursday. He has anchored and reported in the field, for some of the network's most complex broadcasts including successive state and federal elections and budgets, the Brexit referendum, the Anzac Day centenary, Sydney's Martin Place siege, Melbourne's Commonwealth Games, and Perth's Claremont Serial Killer investigation. Jeremy is a regular contributor to ABC News Digital and ABC Radio. He regularly appears on ABC News 24, and ABC NSW main 7PM News bulletin. Away from the ABC, Jeremy enjoys spending time in hardware stores contemplating unfinished DIY projects.

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ABC News 24 presenter Jeremy Fernandez

Elysse Morgan

Elysse Morgan hosts The Business on ABC TV and ABC News 24 and Business PM on ABC Radio, Mondays to Thursdays. An award-winning journalist with a specialist business and finance background, Elysse has been at the ABC for almost a decade. Prior to that Elysse worked at Sky News. After joining the ABC as a rural reporter focusing on trade and resources her specialist knowledge saw her promoted to ABC News's national finance round. After two years of co-hosting The Business, Elysse is now the host of ABC's Business programs.

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ABC's The Business anchor Elysse Morgan

Alicia Barry

Alicia Barry hosts The Business on ABC News, and Business PM on ABC Radio on Fridays and presents daily finance coverage for ABC news programs throughout the rest of the week. Alicia has more than 12 years' experience covering business news and trends, financial markets and economics; known for breaking news and her ability to provide analysis quickly. Alicia joined the ABC in 2007 as a producer with the Australia Network's Business Today program, before working her way through the ranks of the ABC's business team reporting across radio, TV and digital. Prior to this Alicia spent 3 years as a producer and reporter on the business desk at Sky News and has also worked as corporate finance public relations consultant. Alicia has a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. She is studying Applied Finance in a postgraduate capacity.

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James Valentine

James Valentine is the presenter of The Mix, ABC News 24's weekly arts, entertainment and culture program. He also presents Afternoons on 702 ABC Sydney each weekday. James has been part of Australian media and entertainment his entire working life. As well as being a broadcaster, he is an accomplished writer and musician. He was a member of a number of bands such as the Models, Absent Friends and the Wendy Matthews Band in the 1980s and has toured and recorded with Jo Camilleri, Steve Cummings, Kate Ceberano, and a host of others. He is the writer/narrator of Come Dine With Me, and produced and presented Exhumed for ABC TV. James has also been the host of the ABC children's program The Afternoon Show and presented Showtime Movie News for over ten years. He's the author of six books, including the Jumpman series for young adult readers, The True History of Stuff for children and The Form Guide and Spotfull for adult readers, based on content from his daily radio show.

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