6 News Australia (also known simply as 6 News) is a

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based in

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...

. The channel is known for a large portion of its journalists being teenagers.

History

6 News was founded in 2019 as HMV Local News by

Leonardo Puglisi Leonardo Puglisi ( ; born 12 November 2007) is an Australian journalist. He is the founder of online news channel 6 News Australia. He lives in Melbourne, Victoria. Career Puglisi began his media career in 2019, founding what was then initia ...

, who was 11 years old at the time. The channel changed its name to 6 News on 1 January 2020. In August 2021, the channel was suspended by

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for a week after uploading a video of then-MP George Christensen, which violated YouTube's policy against COVID-19 misinformation. The suspension was overturned after it was determined "there was sufficient context" to allow the video to be published. The channel gained national media attention in early 2022 during the federal election campaign, after conducting interviews with then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison and then-Opposition Leader

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. As of November 2023, 6 News has over a dozen journalists, the majority being teenagers.

References

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