Rosemary Church (born 10 November 1962) is an

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. Based at the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, she anchors the 2 to 4 a.m. ET edition of ''

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''. She previously worked as a reporter and newsreader for the

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, news and current affairs division.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Church has lived in

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and Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the

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in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in Media and Law.

Career

Church joined

in August 1998 as an anchor on World News, based in the network's Atlanta headquarters. At

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, she primarily worked for the international arm '' Australia Television'' as Senior Anchor. She also reported for the program

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and anchored the evening news in

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and the summer edition of ''The World At Noon''. Previously she presented weekend weather on

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and worked for five years in

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for the National Media Liaison Service. She was also an news anchor on Ten Capital. Church spent several years in the late 1980s to early 1990s as the host of a Sunday morning radio show "Church on Sunday" on 2SSS-FM, later called Triple S, covering music and happenings in Canberra with notable guests such as Marilyn Dooley,

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and regular phone in guests like Keith (KC Bell) from Scullin, a rock and roll trivia buff, among others. 2SSS-FM was a community sports radio station, managed by James Patterson, covering the Canberra region. It ran from 1986 to 2003. Another notable that started out on Triple S was Gaven Morris, who was later with CNN before returning to Australia to rejoin the ABC as Director of News (2015). Church won the New York Festival's TV programming award (silver) for coverage of the

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to China in 1997.

References

External links

CNN profile
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