Briana Shepherd

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

References

1. Linda 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.
2. Daniel J Wakin (22 July 2009). "Sudden Finale". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
3. Briana Shepherd, Facebook, retrieved 24 October 2021
4. Briana Shepherd, Vivien's Model Management, retrieved 24 October 2021
5. "Briana Shepherd". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
6. "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.
7. 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.
8. Arts in Vincent, City of Vincent, 21 January 2019, retrieved 24 October 2021

External links

• Briana Shepherd on Facebook