Jennifer Hansen

Jennifer Hansen is an Australian journalist, a former news presenter on Network 10's Ten News in Melbourne. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the morning show on radio station smoothfm.

Jennifer Hansen in 2003

Early life and education

Hansen was born in Orbost[1] and raised in suburban Melbourne; the psychologist Margot Prior was her stepmother[2] and she had seven siblings and half-siblings, including a sister who died in infancy.[3][4] She attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School and graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Arts degree in English literature and criminology,[1] and later studied professional writing and editing at RMIT University.[5]

Career

While a student in the late 1980s, Hansen worked as a reporter at two newspapers, The Southern Cross and the Sunday Observer,[6] and joined Network 10,[5] where in 1995 she became a news presenter on Ten News. She co-hosted the Melbourne evening news broadcast with Mal Walden until leaving the network in January 2006.[6]

In 2007 she was falsely rumoured to have been killed in an on-set accident during the production of the film Prey, in which she had a small role.[7]

She subsequently worked as a news presenter for ABC during the 2008 Summer Olympics and wrote for the Herald Sun.[8]

With Mike Perso, she co-hosts the breakfast show on smoothfm,[5][9] which she joined in March 2014.[8]

In 2019 Hansen became ambassador for Hope Street Youth and Family Services in Melton.[10]

Works

Hansen's first novel, Making Headlines, was published in 2016.[11]

Personal life

Hansen is married to actor Alan Fletcher;[6] they have a son and a daughter.[5][11]

References
  1. "About". The official Jennifer Henson website. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. Hosking, Wes (27 August 2020). "Tribute paid to Margot: Pioneer lost to virus". Herald Sun. p. 12.
  3. "Prior (Hansen) Professor Margot AO". The Age (death announcement). August 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  4. "Host Tells Of SIDS Sadness". Herald Sun. 6 August 2020. p. 22.
  5. "People in Media: Melbourne Journalist Jennifer Hansen". Melbourne My Style. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  6. Schneiders, Ben (31 January 2006). "Newsreader leaves Channel Ten". The Age. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  7. Byrne, Fiona (22 July 2007). "Jen alive and kicking". Sunday Herald Sun. p. 119.
  8. "Jennifer Hansen joins smoothfm". Radio Today. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  9. "Mike Perso & Jennifer Hansen". smoothfm. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  10. "Radio personality Jennifer Hansen is the new ambassador for Melton's Hope Street Youth". Melton & Moorabool Weekly. 10 September 2019. p. 4.
  11. Money, Lawrence (8 February 2016). "Neighbours' Dr Karl – aka Alan Fletcher – on music, acting and bowel cancer". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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