Jennifer Keyte

Jennifer Anne Keyte (born 21 January 1960) is an Australian television journalist and current weekend presenter of "Seven News" in Melbourne. She has also filled in on reading the news on the national Sunrise programme.

Keyte enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University but left after her first year, accepting a cadetship with radio station EON FM in 1980. She moved from radio to television in 1982, joining ATV-10, reporting on courts, crime and state politics. She worked briefly on Good Morning Australia, before defecting to HSV-7 in 1987 where she read the main evening news bulletin with Glenn Taylor.

In 1990, Keyte became the first female solo primetime news anchor on Australian commercial television. [http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/resources/conferences/40years/Bertrand.shtml] She also worked alongside Steve Vizard as a newsreader during his Tonight Live With Steve Vizard late night television show.

Although not an entirely unsuccessful network, Seven had long come second in News to the Nine Network's National Nine News. In a bid to reverse that, when Kerry Stokes bought out a majority stake in Seven, Keyte was part of the fallout and resigned when the network attempted to pair her up at the news desk with David Johnston. When Seven's ratings plunged and they realised their folly, Keyte refused their offers to return to Seven and stuck with her lesser job at Nine. At Nine she hosted Good Medicine and "Moment of Truth".

In August 2003, she returned to the weekend news at Seven. She has swapped roles with Peter Mitchell upon return, who formerly occupied Weekend news whilst she was on weekdays back in 1996. She is married with two sons.

References

* [http://seven.com.au/news/profile_040131_jenniferkeyte Seven news bio]
* [http://www.icmi.com.au/speakerfull.phtml?id=251 ICMI speaker bio]