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, Canberra. Prior to joining Sky News Australia 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 (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 ''

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'' on the

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, then worked as a producer for APTN and

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in London. 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, Australia, Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain (British Army and Royal ...

, Bathurst, majoring in

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. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-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 Vancouve ...

in Canada 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 at the Westside Theatre. The play explores ...

'' at Sydney's

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and starred in '' Closer'' for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Tynan edited ''Some Girls Do ... My Life as a Teenager'' (Allen & Unwin, 2007 ), an anthology of Australian female writers. In May 2020, Tynan was made redundant from Sky News Australia 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''. 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