Jill Leonie Singer (1957 – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, writer and television presenter.

Career

Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She eventually became a senior reporter for ''

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'' on ABC and later presented the

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edition of '' Today Tonight'' on the Seven Network. She presented ''The 7.30 Report'', ''The Arts Show'', ''2-shot'' and ''People Dimensions'' (ABC TV). She was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program'' First Edition''. She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's ''

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'' newspaper between 1997 and 2012, and lectured in television journalism at

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in Melbourne. She made regular appearances on ''The Conversation Hour'' (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's ''Melbourne Report''. In 2005 she published a book about commercial surrogacy, ''Immaculate Conceptions : Thoughts on babies, breeding and boundaries''.

Awards

In 1992, Singer won the Walkley Award for Best Investigative Television Journalist for '' Baby M'', a story on the death of an infant with severe abnormalities. In 1997, Singer was highly commended at the Quill Awards for her ''Herald Sun'' column. In 1999, Singer won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs report for an investigation into

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. In 2010, Singer and Lisa Whitehead won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs (less than 15 minutes) for a report on flaws in the criminal justice system's treatment of domestic violence victims.

Personal life and death

In February 2017, Singer was diagnosed with terminal AL amyloidosis. On 8 June 2017, a post by her family on Singer's Facebook page announced that she had died at the age of 60 in Melbourne, Victoria. She had married two months earlier on 8 April 2017, and had a daughter from her first marriage.

References

External links

Profile
on ''The Australian Women's Register''

1957 births 2017 deaths Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Australian women journalists Journalists from Melbourne RMIT University faculty Date of birth missing Deaths from amyloidosis {{australia-journalist-stub