Ros Childs (born 1967) is an English-born TV journalist based in Australia, with a focus on business matters. After working primarily in her native UK for the ITV Network, Childs moved to Australia and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a newsreader.

Career

United Kingdom

Childs began her career as a print journalist with the '' Financial Times''. Subsequently, she was employed at CNBC Europe as a reporter and presenter. She was best known as the business correspondent for

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as well as the lunchtime and weekend news presenter. She was also one of the launch presenters on the

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, which was known as the ITN News Channel from its launch on 1 August 2000 until September 2002. She also worked as a reporter at Sky News, on Channel 4 business documentaries and on BBC World.

Australia

Childs joined the ABC as a news reporter before taking over from Chris Clarke in 2005 as the presenter of the revamped '' Midday Report'', a national weekday news bulletin with a special focus on business, between 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm. As of 2018 she hosts the hours of live news from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm weekdays on the ABC News channel. She has had stints as the fill-in presenter on '' Lateline'' as well as fill-in business editor on ''

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''.

Personal life

Childs lives in

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with her Australian husband, Sean Mulcahy, a television cameraman producer.

References

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