Ashleigh Gillon

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Ashleigh Gillon
Education St Mary's Anglican Girls' School
Curtin University
OccupationPolitical reporter
Years active2004 – present
Employer Sky News Australia
Known forJournalism, TV presenting
PartnerAaron Hood
Children1
Website Ashleigh Gillon profile

Ashleigh Gillon is an Australian journalist. Gillon currently works on Sky News Australia. [1]

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Career

Early in her career, Gillon worked at a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada before joining Sky News Australia in 2004, serving as a producer. [1] In 2011, Gillon received the Wallace Brown Award, honouring young journalists in the Canberra Press Gallery, as well as an ASTRA Award for outstanding performance by a broadcast journalist. [2]

Gillon was part of the Sky News Canberra bureau, including a stint as host of Lunchtime Agenda [2] before moving to Perth to anchor rolling afternoon news. [3] In 2014, Gillon was on air as anchor during the Lindt cafe siege. [4]

Following her relocation to Melbourne, Gillon became host of weekend program Weekend Live with Ashleigh Gillon. [5]

In a 2016 interview, Gillon revealed a male then-Government minister would ask her and only her to apply his make-up every time he would do an interview with her, and only ended when her colleague David Speers stepped in. [6]

Personal life

Gillon attended St Mary's Anglican Girls' School and obtained a Post-Graduate diploma in journalism from Curtin University, as well as a degree in marketing and media. [1]

Gillon is married to equity fund director Aaron Hood [7] and has one daughte, who was born in 2013. Gillon was congratulated live on air by Barnaby Joyce during an interview, and after giving birth by then Prime Minister Julia Gillard. [8] Joyce had also revealed on air her engagement to Hood two years prior. [9]

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  6. ↑ Byrnes, Holly (14 May 2016). "Sky News' signing of Peta Credlin shines spotlight on growing number of women with election voice". news.com.au. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Thompson, Brad (16 February 2016). "Forrest group loses executive". The West Australian. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Prime Minister congratulates Sky News presenter Ashleigh Gillion on her new baby". The Sunday Times. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Barnaby Joyce reveals Sky News political reporter Ashleigh Gillon is pregnant live on air". news.com.au . 10 January 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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