Laura Jayes was born on 24 December 1983 and is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
10 Facts About Laura Jayes
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Laura Jayes joined Sky News in 2006 as a reporter, and in 2011 became a political reporter and member of the press gallery based in Canberra.
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Laura Jayes was the presenter of Lunchtime Agenda before the program was axed in June 2015.
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Laura Jayes returned to Sydney in 2014 and in 2015 began anchoring the Friday edition of NewsDay.
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Laura Jayes was nominated as favourite female personality in the 2014 ASTRA Awards.
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On 18 January 2016, Jayes was given her own primetime program The Latest with Laura Jayes which aired on weeknights.
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In November 2016, Laura Jayes became just the third Australian journalist granted a visa to Nauru, which houses a large Australian asylum seeker processing centre, the Nauru Regional Processing Centre.
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In October 2018, Laura Jayes moved from hosting NewsDay to co-hosting breakfast programs First Edition and AM Agenda.
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In October 2015, Laura Jayes married Seven News reporter Alex Hart in Adelaide and the couple live in Bellevue Hill.
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In December 2016, Laura Jayes announced that she was pregnant with her first child.