Melissa Doyle

Melissa Doyle
Melissa Doyle in Sydney in 2007
Born	10 February 1970 (1970-02-10) (age 41) Sydney, NSW, Australia
Occupation	Seven Network Journalist and television personality
Spouse	John
Children	Nicholas and Talia
Website
Sunrise profile

Melissa Jane Doyle (born 10 February 1970) is an Australian television personality.

Doyle is currently co-host of the Seven Network's Sunrise, The Zoo and Where Are They Now.

Early career

Doyle attended the private school Pymble Ladies' College. She studied communications at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, NSW. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. She gained a cadetship at WIN Television's Canberra bureau in 1990, then moved to Prime Television to become news anchor and general reporter. After her stint at Prime ended in 1995, Doyle joined Channel Seven in Sydney as a Canberra based political reporter as well as reading the afternoon news updates on occasion. Doyle was one of Sunrise's original hosts before it was axed in 1999, before being resurrected in 2000, and which she rejoined in 2002. She also had a stint reading the Seven Late News.

In 2000, she took over as host of Sydney's Today Tonight following the departure of Stan Grant. She stayed until March 2001 when she left for maternity leave.

Sunrise

Doyle returned to Seven from maternity leave in a variety of news and presenting roles before being asked to front a revamped Sunrise program with Chris Reason. After about eight months, Reason left the program after a recurrence of cancer, and David Koch joined the program as a replacement.

Together, Doyle and Koch, under the guidance of Executive Producer Adam Boland, eventually surpassed their incumbent opposition and market leaders, Today on the Nine Network.

In 2003 Doyle enjoyed a very public pregnancy with her second child, who was born in December of that year and named Talia.

Doyle was nominated for the Silver Logie as Most Popular Television Presenter in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She was the only female nominated in that category.

Doyle was embroiled in legal proceedings in which it was alleged she identified a minor who was divorcing his parents. The divorce case was being heard in the Victorian Children's Court and because the boy was only 14 years old he couldn't be named. But Sunrise, as well as a number of other news outlets, including the Sunday Herald Sun and Today Tonight, allegedly identified him and the journalists/presenters were charged with contempt of court. The journalists and presenters/hosts were all acquitted but the Seven Network, its news director, Today Tonight's executive producer and the Sunday Herald Sun and its editor-in-chief were convicted.

Other work

In October 2007, Doyle's first book, The Working Mothers Survival Guide (co-written with Jo Scard), was published by Allen & Unwin. It sold over 10,000 copies in its first print run.

In 2008, Doyle was selected to front a new documentary program on the Seven Network called The Zoo. The show had a six week run during the first half of 2008. A second series of The Zoo commenced on air in October 2008. It generated an audience of over 1.7 million people in each of its first three weeks making it one of the Top Five Programs on Australian television for that week, and one of the highest ranking programs of the year.

Doyle previously wrote a weekly column in Australia's highest selling newspaper, the Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne called "Balancing Act". The column talked about her experiences as a working mother.

References

• Melissa Doyle Sunrise presenter, Seven Network

External links

• Melissa Doyle's official site
• http://www.workingmotherssurvivalguide.com, Website for Melissa Doyle's book
• Melissa Doyle^{[dead link]}, Ninemsn Health, June 2004 issue of GoodMedicine magazine
• Interview on WHO.com with Mel and Kochie about their Cool the Globe campaign^{[dead link]}
• Melissa Doyle at the Internet Movie Database

Media offices
Preceded by Stan Grant	Today Tonight Sydney Presenter 2000 – 2001	Succeeded by Naomi Robson presenting from Melbourne
Preceded by Georgie Gardner	Sunrise Co-host with David Koch 2002 –	Succeeded by incumbent

Persondata
Name	Doyle, Melissa
Alternative names
Short description	television presenter
Date of birth	10 February 1970
Place of birth	Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date of death
Place of death