Anna Coren (born 28 October 1975) is an Australian journalist and former news anchor who is an international correspondent with CNN based in Hong Kong.

Career

Coren graduated 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 ...

's Bathurst campus in 1996 with a communications degree and spent time working for regional television networks

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(12 months) and NBN (18 months). She was picked up by the

Nine Network The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television ne ...

in 1999 and earned a spot as an on-camera reporter for ''

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'' in early 2000. In 2002, she began presenting news updates and the '' National Nine Early Morning News''. Coren's career at the Seven Network began in December 2003, presenting late news updates and presenting the summer edition of ''

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'' in the place of Naomi Robson. She has since presented many one-off events such as '' Australia's Brainiest Kid'', 2005 ''

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'', ''Royal Wedding Night with Seven'' and ''Zero Hour – The Bali Bombings''. Her role at Seven also involved filling-in as news presenter with the morning news program ''

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''. Coren also presented Seven's factual series '' True Stories''. In 2005, Coren was appointed United States correspondent for ''

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'' replacing

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who returned to Australia to present '' Seven 4.30 News''. In this role she appeared on the Global Notebook segment for ''

''. During her tenure as the Seven Network's U.S. correspondent Coren covered the

2006 Israel–Hezbollah War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

from Northern Israel and the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. On 27 January 2007, Coren was appointed presenter of ''

'', replacing Naomi Robson who left the show on 1 December 2006. Her role as presenter of ''Today Tonight'' saw Coren become the frequent subject of satire by the presenters of the television show ''

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''. In September 2008, Coren announced that she would be leaving ''Today Tonight'' to take up a position with CNN in Hong Kong. She was succeeded by Matthew White, with Coren presenting ''Today Tonight'' for the last time on 10 October 2008. In October 2022, CNN apologised for their coverage of the

2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack On 6 October 2022, 34-year-old Panya Khamrab killed 36 people and injured 10 others by shooting, stabbing, and vehicle-ramming in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, before killing himself. The attack mainly occurred in a children's nursery loc ...

, after Coren and her cameraman Daniel Hodge was temporarily detained after trespassing and filming a scene without permission. Both were fined $133 and were told to leave the country. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand criticized the action as "unethical" and "insensitive".

Honour

Coren received the 2011 and 2012 Asian Television Award for "Best News Presenter or Anchor" for her work on the CNN program ''World Report''. In December 2013 Coren received her third Asian Television Award-winning the prestigious 'Best News Story 10 minutes or less' for her powerful exclusive report '

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Taliban Firefight'.

Personal life

She has twins with her husband, Australian hedge fund manager Adam Upton. They married in 2016.

References

External links

''CNN International'' official website (Anna Coren profile)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coren, Anna 1975 births Living people Seven News presenters Nine News presenters Australian game show hosts CNN people Charles Sturt University alumni Australian expatriates in Hong Kong Australian women television journalists