Career

She began her career with a Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

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Hall presented Nine News Melbourne on weekends and occasionally fills in for Peter Hitchener

Peter Hitchener

Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener is an Australian television presenter. He has been chief news presenter for Melbourne's edition of Nine News since 1998, and prior to that was weekend news presenter.-Career:...

. On the weekends Hall also presented the Late News Update for Nine News. She also works with the Variety Club on McHappy Day and is a patron of Bonnie Babes, a research organisation.

In November 2011, it was announced that Hall wanted to scale back her role with Alicia Gorey

Alicia Gorey

Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...

 announced as her replacement. Hall will now present news updates Monday to Friday and be a fill in presenter.

External links

• Profile of Jo Hall at NineMSN