Laura Jayes | |
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 In an online discussion in 2021 | |
| Born | 24 December 1983 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, television presenter |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Employer | Sky News Australia |
| Spouse | Alex Hart (m. 2015) |
Laura Jayes (born 24 December 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She currently hosts AM Agenda on Sky News Australia. [1]
Jayes joined Sky News in 2006 as a reporter, and in 2011 became a political reporter and member of the press gallery based in Canberra. [1] She was the presenter of Lunchtime Agenda before the program was axed in June 2015. [2] [3]
Jayes returned to Sydney in 2014 and in 2015 began anchoring the Friday edition of NewsDay. [1] Jayes was nominated as favourite female personality in the 2014 ASTRA Awards. [4]
On 18 January 2016, Jayes was given her own primetime program The Latest with Laura Jayes which aired on weeknights. [5] [6]
In November 2016, Jayes became just the third Australian journalist granted a visa to Nauru, which houses a large Australian asylum seeker processing centre, the Nauru Regional Processing Centre. Nauru has restricted access to the country to members of the media. [7]
In October 2018, Jayes moved from hosting NewsDay to co-hosting breakfast programs First Edition and AM Agenda . [8]
Jayes grew up in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla. [9] In October 2015, Jayes married Seven News reporter Alex Hart in Adelaide and the couple live in Bellevue Hill. [9] [10] In December 2016, Jayes announced that she was pregnant with her first child. [11] Laura and Alex divorced in recent years.