''The Latest with Laura Jayes'' was an Australian television news and commentary program broadcast weeknights on

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. The program was hosted by

Laura Jayes Laura Jayes (born 24 December 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She currently hosts '' AM Agenda'' on Sky News Australia. Career Jayes joined Sky News in 2006 as a reporter, and in 2011 became a political reporter a ...

until she took

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in 2017. The program covers a range of news and politics, as well as interviews. Jayes has described the program as "a real point of difference in the evenings", referring to being the only female program presenter in primetime on Sky News Live. The series premiered on 18 January 2016 at 7pm

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replacing the last hour of ''Reporting Live'' which was cut from two hours to a single hour, airing live from Monday to Thursday. From 25 April 2016, to accommodate the relaunch of ''

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'', ''The Latest'' moved timeslots to an hour earlier at 6pm AEST replacing ''Reporting Live'' which entered

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and from that week added a Friday airing. The program is broadcast from the Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of

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. Tom Connell,

Ashleigh Gillon Ashleigh Gillon is an Australian journalist. Gillon currently works on Sky News Australia. Career Early in her career, Gillon worked at a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada before joining Sky News Australia in 2004, serving a ...

, Caroline Marcus and

Helen Dalley Helen Dalley (born 1957) is an Australian journalist, who formerly worked for Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) media stable. Dalley is best known for her work on the Nine Network television programs ''Sunday'', ''Today' ...

have served as substitute anchors. Gillon and Dalley have been serving as main hosts due to Jayes being on maternity leave. It was announced in September 2017 that Jayes would return from leave as host of '' The Morning Shift'' and not ''The Latest''.

References

External links

Sky News Official site
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