Briana Shepherd

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Briana Shepherd (born c. 1987[1][2]) is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.

Shepard currently presents ABC News Western Australia from Friday to Sunday.

Shepard attended Perth Modern School.[3] In 2005,[3] at age 18, she joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.[1] Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.[1] She was one of several dancers laid off in 2009,[2] after which she returned to Perth.[1]

She has worked as a model for Vivien's Model Management.[1][3][4]

Shephard obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter.[5] In 2016, she filled in for James McHale reading the news,[1] and in August 2021[6] replaced Charlotte Hamlyn presenting the news on Friday-Sunday.

Shepard is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of West Australian Ballet's inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. Shepard is a guest teacher at the Institute.[7]

Preceded by ABC News Western Australia
Friday — Sunday presenter
September 2021 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Linda Parri (2016-08-22). "Briana Shepherd, New York ballerina and model turned Perth reporter and ABC newsreader". Perth Now. West Australian Newspapers. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  2. ^ a b Daniel J Wakin (2009-07-22). "Sudden Finale". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  3. ^ a b c Briana Shepherd, Facebook, retrieved 2021-10-24
  4. ^ Briana Shepherd, Vivien's Model Management, retrieved 2021-10-24
  5. ^ "Briana Shepherd". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  6. ^ Charlotte Hamlyn [@charlottehamlyn] (2021-08-01). "Big girl signing off for now. *ditches scripts* Much love and thanks to the @abcperth gang" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-10-24 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Arts in Vincent, City of Vincent, 2019-01-21, retrieved 2021-10-24

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