Charlotte Hamlyn (born
) is a
Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hamlyn graduated from the
University of Western Australia in 2008 with a degree in Communications/English,
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and started her media career working for a newspaper in
Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...
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[ In 2008 and 2009 she was an exchange student at the University of Pennsylvania.][
She started at the ABC in 2009,][ working as a journalist and reporter, travelling around Western Australia, and overseas for '']Foreign Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...
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She also regularly appeared on ABC Radio Perth, including co-hosting the weekend ''Breakfast'' program.[
Hamlyn presented the '' ABC News'' for one month in 2013, filling in while James McHale was on leave.][
She presented that news on Friday-Sunday from September 2020][ until August 2021 when she went on maternity leave.] She was replaced by Briana Shepherd,[ then returned in June 2022.
Hamlyn is a member of the board of the arts organisation Form.]
References
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ABC News (Australia) presenters
Australian radio presenters
Australian women radio presenters
Australian television journalists
Australian women television presenters
Australian women journalists
Journalists from Western Australia
Living people
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Western Australia alumni
1980s births
Year of birth missing (living people)