Kelly Nestor (journalist)

Kelly Nestor (born 22 August 1969) is an Australian television news presenter. Nestor was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales, but made her name as a newsreader in Adelaide. She is currently the weekday co-anchor of National Nine News Adelaide.

Biography

Nestor studied for a Bachelor in Arts (Journalism) from 1987 to 1989 at the South Australian College of Advanced Education's Magill Campus, now part of the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Nestor began work as a reporter at a Central TV Network (GTS BKN) in Port Pirie in 1989.

Nestor moved to the ABC in Adelaide and worked as a journalist and presenter for South Australia's ABC News as well as the presenter of "Stateline" for almost three years. She also worked as a reporter, producer and presenter for the Adelaide version of the at the ABC.

Nestor became the weekday anchor of ABC news in Adelaide and later moved to Melbourne to co-anchor Ten News Adelaide, which is produced in Melbourne. Following a number of years as co-anchor of the 5pm news, Nestor left the Ten Network moving to Sydney where she became a part time presenter with Sky News Australia.

On September 19 2007, following the death of Kevin Crease in April that year, it was announced that Nestor would return to Adelaide to co-anchor National Nine News. [cite web
title = Nestor new name at Nine
work = Adelaide Now
date = 2007-09-19
url = http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22442416-2682,00.html
accessdate = 2007-09-19 ] Nestor began as co-anchor of National Nine News on October 8 2007, working alongside co-anchor Rob Kelvin. In February 2008, Nestor started casual radio work presenting the afternoon programme on Adelaide talk radio station (5AA) FIVEaa.

References

External links

* [http://www.ninemsn.com.au/news National Nine News]
* [http://www.ten.com.au Channel 10]
* [http://www.skynews.com.au Sky News Australia]
* [http://www.hottestontv.com.au/index.php?section=celebs&profile=211&letter=k&sort=firstname&sort_gender=b&anch=17 hottestontv.com Profile]