Broadcast
Sarah Jane has reported for Australia’s number one rated breakfast television show, Sunrise, and Channel 7’s nightly news from the UK, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. She shines when presenting breaking news on location and in rolling coverage. Her work covering the Melbourne floods was Highly Commended at the Quill Awards, and as the first reporter on the ground at the Daylesford crash disaster she was also shortlisted in the Press Club Awards.
Sarah Jane regularly travels across the country for significant breaking news events, from the terror attack on a Melbourne Synagogue, to the Bondi stabbing rampage, SeaWorld Helicopter crash, bushfires and floods. She has also sensitively conveyed the heartbreak of families across the country dealing with the deaths of women at the hands of intimate partners and experiencing tragic loss. On a daily basis, Sarah Jane covers crime, politics and courts. Her live reporting skills are complemented by her writing ability and strength using pictures to tell important stories.
Sarah Jane also has experience creating long form pieces. While in the UK she worked as a producer on several investigative pieces for Channel 7 Spotlight securing exclusive talent and covering everything from the Air India Crash to the rise in AI. She has also produced longform celebrity interviews. As a video journalist she has shot stories for the ABC’s Landline program and 7:30 Report. More recently she has worked as a producer on ABC’s The World, reporting on international news from elections to wars.
Her experience in front of the camera helped Sarah Jane to transition to working as an Assistant Editor at Sky News UK, where she output bulletins covering both national and international news, from politics to wars. She is confident outputting live breaking news events in the gallery, as well as building and outputting structured programmes. Sarah Jane is comfortable making editorial decisions under pressure and is experienced editing vision and scripts, and creating graphics.
On the brighter side, Sarah Jane is happiest covering feature pieces and human-interest stories. She has also been captured ziplining across Melbourne’s Yarra River with the Lord Mayor!
