Greg Pearce is an Australian journalist.

Career

Originally a booth announcer with the

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, Pearce became best known as presenter of the ''

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'' bulletin for Perth, prior to that he had been a short term news presenter for ''

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'' in Melbourne and had a short stint with Nine. Originally produced locally in Perth, the 5pm news production was moved to Sydney as

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claimed the upgrade of the

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studios was too expensive at the time. Pearce continued to present Perth's news, from Sydney, with Christina Morrisey and later Celina Edmonds.Mischief at 9
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on '' Ten Late News''. After 15 years as the presenter for '' Ten News Perth'', Pearce cited family reasons and resigned from Ten to return full-time to Western Australia. He worked with

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in South Western Australia, presenting ABC South West's Breakfast show. Pearce was offered the chance to return to Nine and present '' Nine News Perth'' with

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. He replaced

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who was to move to the new local version of ''

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'' but resigned for family reasons.

References

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