Janine Perrett is an Australian journalist and commentator who has worked across newspapers, radio and television for four decades.
10 Facts About Janine Perrett
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In 1989, Janine Perrett worked as a business news editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, before moving to television as a reporter for the Nine Network's Business Sunday.
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In 1994 Janine Perrett founded Nine's The Small Business Show, which she anchored for its entire run until 2002, while reporting for the Business Sunday and Sunday programs on Nine.
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In 2007 Perrett was awarded the John S Knight Journalism Fellowship from Stanford University in California to study for a year.
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In May 2010 Janine Perrett joined Sky News Business to host a nightly program The Janine Perrett Report.
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Janine Perrett has appeared as a panelist on numerous Sky News programs, including weekly appearances on Paul Murray Live.
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Ahead of the 2013 Australian federal election, Janine Perrett was the host of the short run series Saturday Live, which returned for the 2016 Australian federal election.
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From 10 April 2015 Janine Perrett was host of new weekly format The Friday Show on Sky News, which abruptly replaced the axed program Keneally and Cameron.
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In 2016 and 2017, she presented The Janine Perrett Report on Sunday evenings and was a nightly panelist on The Last Word.
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Janine Perrett was the Australia Day ambassador for Dubbo, New South Wales in 2015 and Broken Hill in 2017.