Narelda Jacobs
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Narelda Jacobs ia an Australia television journalist with Network Ten
in Australia. She has been the lead news presenter
for Ten News at Five
in Perth, Western Australia
since 2008.
Jacobs graduated from the WA Academy of Performing Arts
and began her career at GWN
in Bunbury
. She joined Ten News
in Perth in 2000, eventually becoming their court reporter
, and also filling in as weather presenter over summer.
In 2008, Network Ten
announced that production of their Perth news bulletin would return to Perth from Sydney, and selected Jacobs as the new presenter. This decision was denied directly to the death of former newsreader Charmaine Dragun
, as the initial decision to move the bulletin back to Perth was made well before her unexpected death on 2 November 2007.
Jacobs is the first Aboriginal
, and first openly lesbian
newsreader in Western Australia. She lives in Perth with her partner
and teenage daughter.
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
in Australia. She has been the lead news presenter
News presenter
A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
for Ten News at Five
Ten News
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont...
in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
since 2008.
Jacobs graduated from the WA Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , Edith Cowan University was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.The school is located in the...
and began her career at GWN
Golden West Network
GWN7 is an Australian television network owned by the Prime Media Group that is based in Bunbury, Western Australia. The Golden West Network launched on 10 March 1967 as BTW-3 in Bunbury, and has since expanded to cover regional and remote Western Australia, servicing all areas except metropolitan...
in Bunbury
Bunbury, Western Australia
The port city of Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia after the State Capital Perth and Mandurah. It is situated south of Perth's central business district...
. She joined Ten News
Ten News
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont...
in Perth in 2000, eventually becoming their court reporter
Court reporter
A court reporter, stenotype reporter, voice writing reporter, or transcriber is a person whose occupation is to transcribe spoken or recorded speech into written form, using machine shorthand or voice writing equipment to produce official transcripts of court hearings, depositions and other...
, and also filling in as weather presenter over summer.
In 2008, Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
announced that production of their Perth news bulletin would return to Perth from Sydney, and selected Jacobs as the new presenter. This decision was denied directly to the death of former newsreader Charmaine Dragun
Charmaine Dragun
Charmaine Dragun was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was, with Tim Webster, the regular presenter of Ten News Perth's 5pm bulletin, which was broadcast at the time from the TEN-10 Sydney studios at Pyrmont...
, as the initial decision to move the bulletin back to Perth was made well before her unexpected death on 2 November 2007.
Jacobs is the first Aboriginal
Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
, and first openly lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
newsreader in Western Australia. She lives in Perth with her partner
Significant other
Significant other is colloquially used as a gender-blind term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, or sexual orientation, as it is vague enough to avoid offense by using a term that an individual...
and teenage daughter.