Jacinta Tynan (born 8 August 1969) is an Australian news presenter and journalist. Tynan has previously been a news presenter on

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Career

She started her career as a snow reporter for

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before working as a reporter/weather presenter with Win TV,

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. Prior to joining

in 2005, she worked at

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, where she reported and presented for ABC News and the '' 7:30 Report''. She was also the anchorwoman for the ABC's International satellite TV service, the

Australia Network ABC Australia, formerly Australia Television International (or just Australia Television), ABC Asia Pacific, Australia Network and Australia Plus, is an Australian pay television channel, launched in 1993 and operated by the Australian Broadca ...

(formerly known as ABC Asia Pacific). Tynan was a reporter for ABC News in Darwin and was a relief presenter for Australia Television News. She reported for ''

Today Tonight ''Today Tonight'' is an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network. It aired from January 1995 to November 2019 in Adelaide and Perth. Editions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were previously produced befo ...

'' on the

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, then worked as a producer for APTN and

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London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. She has a Bachelor of Communications from

Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explorer w ...

, Bathurst, majoring in

broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station

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-FM. Tynan also studied acting at the

Vancouver Film School Vancouver Film School (VFS) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around Downtown Vancouver ...

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and has written and starred in two

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s, one of which was selected as a

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semi-finalist in 2001. She also acted in ''

The Vagina Monologues ''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores cons ...

'' at

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

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and starred in '' Closer'' for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company. In May 2020, Tynan was made redundant from

after 18 years with the network.

Personal life

Tynan is one of six children. Neither she nor any of her three sisters are married. In an interview on ''

'' on 6 August 2007 she revealed that she has a fear of getting married, because her parents had a bad marriage. She is the grand-niece of John O'Grady (Nino Culotta) who wrote the best-selling ''

They're a Weird Mob ''They're a Weird Mob'' is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady (writer), John O'Grady under the pen name, pseudonym "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. The book was the Debut novel, first publishe ...

''. Tynan is ambassador and a mentor for the Sister2Sister teenage mentor program with the Life Changing Experiences Foundation. Tynan and her ex-partner have two sons, the first of whom was born after Tynan went into labour while presenting the news on

References

External links

Sky News Australia
1969 births Living people Charles Sturt University alumni Vancouver Film School alumni Sky News Australia reporters and presenters People educated at Kincoppal School {{Australia-journalist-stub