Briana Shepherd

Briana Shepherd (born c. 1987[1][2]) is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.

Shepard currently presents ABC News Western Australia from Friday to Sunday.

Shepard attended Perth Modern School.[3] In 2005,[3] at age 18, she joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.[1] Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.[1] She was one of several dancers laid off in 2009,[2] after which she returned to Perth.[1]

She has worked as a model for Vivien's Model Management.[1][3][4]

Shephard obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter.[5] In 2016, she filled in for James McHale reading the news,[1] and in August 2021[6] replaced Charlotte Hamlyn presenting the news on Friday-Sunday.

Shepard is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of West Australian Ballet's inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. Shepard is a guest teacher at the Institute.[7]

References
  1. Linda Parri (22 August 2016). "Briana Shepherd, New York ballerina and model turned Perth reporter and ABC newsreader". Perth Now. West Australian Newspapers. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  2. Daniel J Wakin (22 July 2009). "Sudden Finale". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. Briana Shepherd, Facebook, retrieved 24 October 2021
  4. Briana Shepherd, Vivien's Model Management, retrieved 24 October 2021
  5. "Briana Shepherd". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  6. Charlotte Hamlyn [@charlottehamlyn] (1 August 2021). "Big girl signing off for now. *ditches scripts* Much love and thanks to the @abcperth gang" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via Twitter.
  7. Arts in Vincent, City of Vincent, 21 January 2019, retrieved 24 October 2021
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