Jill Singer
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1957
Jill Singer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jill Leonie Singer 1957 |
| Died | 8 June 2017 (aged 60) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Children | 1 |
Jill Leonie Singer (1957[1] – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, writer and television presenter.
Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She eventually became a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on the ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network.[2]
She presented The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions (ABC TV). She was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition. She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper between 1997 and 2012,[3] and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne. She made regular appearances on The Conversation Hour (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's Melbourne Report.[citation needed] In 2005 she published a book about commercial surrogacy, Immaculate Conceptions : Thoughts on babies, breeding and boundaries.[4]
Awards
In 1992, Singer won the Walkley Award for Best Investigative Television Journalist for Baby M, a story on the death of an infant with severe abnormalities.[5] In 1997, Singer was highly commended at the Quill Awards for her Herald Sun column. In 1999, Singer won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs report[6] for an investigation into ExxonMobil.
In 2010, Singer and Lisa Whitehead won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs (less than 15 minutes) for a report on flaws in the criminal justice system's treatment of domestic violence victims.[7][5]
