Leigh Carol McClusky is an
Australian journalist and presenter who has previously worked for
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in
Adelaide. She held the role of presenter of
Today Tonight South Australia from 30 January 1995 to 17 August 2007.
Career
She started her career as a cadet reporter for the
Melbourne Herald
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in 1979. Since then she has worked throughout the Australian media. McClusky was also a feature writer for the
Australian Associated Press
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, as well as a researcher and reporter for the
ABC
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program ''
The Investigators''. She has also worked on country newspapers and spent two years reporting with
Channel Nine's ''
A Current Affair
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''.
In 1992 McClusky moved to
Adelaide to present the
ABC's ''
The 7.30 Report
''The 7.30 Report'' is an Australian week-nightly television current affairs program, which was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at from 1986 to 2011. In 2011, it evolved into ''7.30'', a revamped current affairs program.
History
''The 7.30 Report ...
'', which at that time was state-based.
When the program became national in 1995,
Kerry O'Brien took the role of presenting the program. McClusky then moved to
Channel Seven where she started hosting the new state-based
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program ''
Today Tonight'', where she remained the anchor ever since the program started until August 2007.
Personal life
McClusky gave birth to a son, Murdoch, in 2002 and a daughter, Sigourney, in 2006.
On 6 July 2007 McClusky made the announcement that she was going to leave ''
Today Tonight'' as she was expecting twins, and will not return. It was speculated that the relief presenter Rosanna Mangiarelli would take over her role, which was confirmed by Seven on Sunday, 15 July 2007.
On 17 August, McClusky anchored her final show which concluded with members of the TT and 7 News teams, plus her husband (Simon Haigh owner of Haigh's Chocolates) and children joining her on set. The following December she gave birth to twins: a boy, Jock, and a girl, Tansy.
McClusky has now started her own media and public relations business called McCo Group (formerly McClusky & Co) in Adelaide.
References
External links
McCo Group website
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Australian television journalists
Australian television presenters
Living people
People from Adelaide
Journalists from Melbourne
Journalists from South Australia
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Herald (Melbourne) people