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| In 2010, Singer 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. | In 2010, Singer 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. | ||
| In 2011, Singer proved to the world what a clueless twat she is by publishing a blatantly inflammatory article regarding the death of MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli. Described by many observers as "horse shit", the article has attained cult status as a shining beacon of mediocrity worldwide. The Dali Lama is reported to have used a copy of the article as toilet paper. | |||
| ==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
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Jill Singer is a well-known Australian journalist, columnist and television presenter. She began her journalism career as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She worked her way up to become a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on the ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network. She has also presented for The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions (ABCTV) She was the executive producer of ABCTV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition. Currently she writes a weekly column for the Melbourne Herald Sun and lectures in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne. She makes regular appearances on The Conversation Hour (ABC774) and on SKYTV's Melbourne Report.
In 1992, Singer won the Walkley Award for "Best Investigative Television Journalist."
In 1996, Jill collapsed on-air as she attempted to introduce a story on the then Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett's business dealings. The collapse, a severe migraine attack, prompted a public furore, and the story went to air the following night, unchanged. However, journalists and producers who worked on the story did not have their contracts renewed. The story behind this was uncovered by an ABC Four Corners feature and the Seven Network was accused of bowing to pressure from the State Government to pull the story.
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 for an investigation into ExxonMobil.
In 2010, Singer 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.
Personal life
- Jill Singer's current column for the Herald Sun, a News Corporation paper
References
- Transcript of ABC News Four Corners Feature : Kennett's Culture Aired September 1997
- Brief ABC Art Show biography
- Crikey on Today Tonight
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