Tara Brown
Tara Brown | |
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| Born | 14 March 1968(age56) Sydney,Australia |
| Education | Davidson High School Charles Sturt University |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Employer | Nine Network |
| Notable credit(s) | 60 Minutes A Current Affair Nightline |
| Spouse | John McAvoy (2000–2017) |
| Children | 2 |
Tara Brown(born 14 March 1968) is an Australian television presenter and reporter.
Early life and career
[edit]After graduatingDavidson High Schoolin 1986, Brown attendedCharles Sturt UniversityinBathurst, New South Wales,graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree.[1][2]
After graduation, she joinedChannel Seven'sSydneynewsroom as an assistant to the chief-of-staff.[1][2]In 1991, Brown moved toWIN TelevisioninWollongong,and undertook acadetshipinjournalism.[1][2]
Nine Network
[edit]In 1992, she joined theNine Networkand began working on compiling features including "Australian Agenda" reports for the Nine Network's late news programmeNightline.[1][2]In 1993, she leftNightlineand began reporting onA Current Affair.[2]Her most memorable stories forA Current Affairinclude a series of reports on a group ofAustraliansoldiersreturning toVietnamon the 20th anniversary of thefall of Saigon;uncovering a tyre dumping racket which posed a major environmental threat; and a feature story on refugees in Bei Hai in southernChina.[1]
In 2001, she became a reporter on the Nine Network's60 Minutes.[3]The first person Brown ever interviewed on60 MinuteswasMel Gibson.[3]
Brown was previously a fill-in presenter forNine Sunday AM News.[4][5]
In April 2016, Brown and eight other people (including three other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, Stephen Rice, and Ben Williamson)[6]were arrested on allegations ofchild abductioninLebanon.Lebanese judicial sources toldThe Guardianthat the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" - crimes which carry sentences of twenty years' imprisonment withhard labour.[7]She was released from custody only after the Nine Network paid a substantial money settlement to the father of the children, the subject of the attempted abduction.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Brown was married to TV producer John McAvoy from 2000 until their divorce in 2017. She has two sons, born in 2008 and 2010.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^abcde"Tara Brown, 60 Minutes reporter".Nine News.31 May 2022.Retrieved3 October2023.
- ^abcdeFreeman, Jane (11 December 1995)."TV's next generation".The Sydney Morning Herald.pp. 53–54.Retrieved3 October2023.
- ^abOtto, Anna (30 July 2011)."Saturday Sibset: Tara Brown and sons".Waltzing More Than Matilda.Retrieved3 October2023.
- ^"Tara Brown".Sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au. Archived fromthe originalon 27 December 2008.Retrieved4 December2010.
- ^"Tara Brown".Health.ninemsn.com.au. 13 July 2005.Retrieved4 December2010.
- ^Miranda, Charles (13 April 2016)."Kidnapping charges filed against 60 Minutes crew over botched child recovery mission in Lebanon".Retrieved13 April2016.
- ^Shaheen, Kareem; Safi, Michael; Elgot, Jessica (12 April 2016)."Suspects in alleged Beirut kidnapping face jail and hard labour".Retrieved13 April2016.
- ^"Kidnapping charges against Tara Brown and 60 Minutes crew dropped".Australian Women's Weekly. 13 June 2016.Retrieved4 June2016.
- ^"60 Minutes' reporter Tara Brown has first child, a boy".The Daily Telegraph.30 October 2008.Retrieved4 December2010.
- ^"Tara Brown: Baby bliss at 43".29 June 2011.Retrieved13 April2016.