Jill Leonie Singer was an Australian journalist, writer and television presenter.
11 Facts About Jill Singer
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Jill Singer eventually became a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on the ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network.
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Jill Singer presented The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions.
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Jill Singer was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition.
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Jill Singer wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper between 1997 and 2012, and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne.
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Jill Singer made regular appearances on The Conversation Hour and on Sky News Australia's Melbourne Report.
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In 1992, Jill Singer won the Walkley Award for Best Investigative Television Journalist for Baby M, a story on the death of an infant with severe abnormalities.
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In 1997, Jill Singer was highly commended at the Quill Awards for her Herald Sun column.
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In 1999, Jill Singer won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs report for an investigation into ExxonMobil.
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In February 2017, Jill Singer was diagnosed with terminal AL amyloidosis.
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Jill Singer had married two months earlier on 8 April 2017, and had a daughter from her first marriage.