Briana Shepherd (born c. 1987[1][2]) is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
Shepherd attended Perth Modern School.[3] In 2005,[3] at age 18, she joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.[1] Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.[1]
She was one of several dancers laid off in 2009,[2] after which she returned to Perth.[1]
She has worked as a model for Vivien's Model Management.[1][3][4]
Shepherd obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter.[5] In 2016, she filled in for James McHale reading the news.[1] From August 2021 to June 2022[6] she presented the news on Friday-Sunday, while Charlotte Hamlyn was on maternity leave.[7]
Shepherd is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of West Australian Ballet's inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. Shepherd is a guest teacher at the Institute.[8]
Preceded by
Charlotte Hamlyn
ABC News Western Australia Friday — Sunday presenter August 2021 – June 2022
Succeeded by
Charlotte Hamlyn
^ abcdefLinda Parri (22 August 2016). "Briana Shepherd, New York ballerina and model turned Perth reporter and ABC newsreader". Perth Now. West Australian Newspapers. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
^ abDaniel J Wakin (22 July 2009). "Sudden Finale". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
^ abcBriana Shepherd, Facebook, retrieved 24 October 2021
^Briana Shepherd, Vivien's Model Management, retrieved 24 October 2021
^"Briana Shepherd". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
^"Friday 17 June 2022". ABC News WA. 17 June 2022. Event occurs at 29:50. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 June 2022. It's been my absolute pleasure having your company these past eleven months. Charlotte Hamlyn will be back with you tomorrow.
^Charlotte Hamlyn [@charlottehamlyn] (1 August 2021). "Big girl signing off for now. *ditches scripts* Much love and thanks to the @abcperth gang" (Tweet). Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via Twitter. ... my last bulletin for a little while. I'm off to give this motherhood thing a go.
^Arts in Vincent, City of Vincent, 21 January 2019, retrieved 24 October 2021
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