Jacinta Tynan

Jacinta Tynan has been a news presenter / journalist for more than 12 years, most of those with ABC Television, where she reported and presented for the National News and the .

She has recently been the anchorwoman for the ABC's International satellite TV service, the Australia Network (formerly known as ABC Asia Pacific). She is now a presenter with Sky News Australia.

Jacinta started her career as a snow reporter for Thredbo before working as a reporter / weather presenter with Win TV, Canberra.

She presented ABC News in Darwin and was a relief presenter for Australia Television News. She reported for Today Tonight on the Seven Network, then worked as a producer for APTN and Access Hollywood in London.

She has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, majoring in Broadcast Journalism. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.

She also studied acting at the Vancouver Film School in Canada and has written and starred in two short films, one of which was selected as a Tropfest semi-finalist in 2001.

She also acted in The Vagina Monologues at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre and starred in Closer for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

She is one of six children. Neither she nor any of her three sisters are married. In an interview on Today Tonight on 6 August 2007 she revealed that she has a fear of getting married, because her parents had a bad marriage.

Jacinta is the grand-niece of John O'Grady (Nino Culotta) who wrote the best selling "They're a Weird Mob".

Jacinta is ambassador and a mentor for the Sister2Sister teenage mentor program with the Life Changing Experiences Foundation.

References

* [http://www2.skynews.com.au/onair/presenters/biog.aspx?page=4 Sky News Australia]