Jonathan Uptin
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Jonathan Uptin is the presenter on Nine News Darwin.
He has worked across Australia on a number of different platforms. After doing a communications degree at the University of Canberra
, he began his media career at Channel Nine
in Sydney
as an assistant to the chief of staff, before working as a news reporter with Prime Television
and radio station 2GZ.
He then joined Channel Nine, at the time Channel 8, as a sports reporter before becoming a sports presenter at NBN Television in Newcastle.
He returned to Darwin as anchor of Eight National News and has continued in that role during the conversion to Nine News.
Outside of news reading he enjoys sport and has 3 young children.
Birth date 4 January 1976
He has worked across Australia on a number of different platforms. After doing a communications degree at the University of Canberra
University of Canberra
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, he began his media career at Channel Nine
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
as an assistant to the chief of staff, before working as a news reporter with Prime Television
Prime Television
PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...
and radio station 2GZ.
He then joined Channel Nine, at the time Channel 8, as a sports reporter before becoming a sports presenter at NBN Television in Newcastle.
He returned to Darwin as anchor of Eight National News and has continued in that role during the conversion to Nine News.
Outside of news reading he enjoys sport and has 3 young children.
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Birth date 4 January 1976