Monika Kos

Kos is best known for presenting the Western Australian edition of the Seven Network's evening current affairs program Today Tonight from 1997 until it was axed in 2019.^[3][4][5][6]

Kos studied at Loreto Nedlands and John XXIII College^[7] and is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.^[8] She worked at Perth radio station 6PR in the late 1980s in various roles including as a presenter before she joined Channel 7 in Perth as a cadet journalist in 1990.^[1]

In December 2019, it was announced Kos had joined Network 10 and would replace Narelda Jacobs as presenter on the Perth edition of 10 News First.^[9][10][11]

In August 2020, Kos was made redundant by Network 10. She presented her final Perth-based 10 News First bulletin on 11 September, after which production of the state-based Perth bulletin moved to Sydney.^[12]

On 2 December 2020, it was announced that Kos would be joining Nine News Perth to front a new live and local one-hour bulletin at 5pm, commencing Monday, 7 December.^[13]

Kos is the daughter of Friedrich Anton Kos (an architect and architectural photographer^[14]) and Jane Margaret née Roper (a graphic artist and painter^[15]).^[16] Kos has an older half-brother, David, a farmer in Tasmania.^[16]

Kos is of Austrian descent,^[1] her father was born in Vienna in 1926 and migrated to Australia in 1951 following World War II.^[16]

Kos is married to Grant Willesee, a camera operator and son of Terry Willesee.^[1][17][18]