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Heather Foord (born 1965) is an Australian television journalist.

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Foord was a news presenter for the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presenting the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige between 1995–2001, and again between 2004–2008. She also presented the weekend news with Mike London between 2001–2004, and then solo between 2009–2011 before retiring from television news in June 2011. [1]

Early life

Foord attended Brisbane State High School for her secondary education. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a degree in journalism.

Personal life

Foord has four girls, India, Grace, Riley and Maya, with her husband Tony. [2]

Career

Following university, Foord worked with Good Morning Australia at Network Ten before joining Nine News as a reporter. She quickly made the transition to news reader, taking a weekend hosting position after 6 months.

For a duration of three weeks in October 2007, Foord also presented the news bulletins for the Nine Network's Today , an additional duty requiring her to fly between Sydney and Brisbane daily.

While her daughters were young, Heather returned to the weekend news desk so she could spend more time with her family, but returned to the main desk in 2004 - a position she held until December 2008, when Foord announced her resignation from the news desk after 21 years. Melissa Downes was named her successor in 2009, by which point the strong ratings for Nine News Queensland had worn off. [3]

Foord was announced as the host of Nine Network Brisbane's Extra in January 2009 replacing Jillian Whiting. Extra was axed in late June, and Foord moved back to Nine News in July as the weekend presenter. She remained in this role before stepping down permanently in June 2011; [4] she was replaced by Eva Milic. [1]

Aside from working on with Nine Network, Foord is an advocate supporting sufferers of cerebral palsy, a condition which affects her nephew.

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References

  1. 1 2 Feeney, Katherine (27 June 2011). "Heather Foord's final sign-off". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Swanwick, Tristan (28 June 2011). "Foord farewells full-time bulletins" . Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Knox, David (28 November 2008). "Melissa for weeknights on Nine". TV Tonight . Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Feeney, Katherine (27 June 2011). "Heather Foord's final sign-off" . Retrieved 17 November 2023.
Media offices
Preceded by Nine News Queensland
Weekend presenter
with Mike London (1989, 2002–2003), Dean Felton (1990–1991)
1989 – December 1991
2002–2004		Succeeded by
Kym Carter
Jillian Whiting
Preceded by
Robin Parkin
Jillian Whiting
Nine News Queensland
Weeknight presenter
with Mike London (1992–1995), Bruce Paige (1996–2002, 2004–2008)
January 1992 – 2002
2004 – December 2008		Succeeded by
Jillian Whiting
Melissa Downes
Preceded by Nine News Queensland
Weekend presenter
July 2009 – July 2011		Succeeded by


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