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词条 Jill Singer
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  1. Career

  2. Awards

  3. Personal life and death

  4. References

  5. External links

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|birthname = Jill Leonie Singer
|birth_date = 1957
|birth_place = Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
|death_date = 8 June 2017 (aged 60)
|death_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
|occupation = Journalist
|children = 1
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Jill Leonie Singer (1957[1] – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, writer and television presenter.

Career

Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She eventually became a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network.[2]

She presented for The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions (ABC TV) She was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition. She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper between 1997 and 2012,[3] and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne. She made regular appearances on The Conversation Hour (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's Melbourne Report.{{cn|date=June 2017}} In 2005 she published a book about commercial surrogacy, Immaculate Conceptions : Thoughts on babies, breeding and boundaries.[4]

Awards

In 1992, Singer won the Walkley Award for Best Investigative Television Journalist for Baby M, a story on the death of an infant with severe abnormalities.[5] In 1997, Singer was highly commended at the Quill Awards for her Herald Sun column. In 1999, Singer won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs report[6] for an investigation into Exxon Mobil.

In 2010, Singer and Lisa Whitehead won the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs (less than 15 minutes) for a report on flaws in the criminal justice system's treatment of domestic violence victims.[7][5]

Personal life and death

In February 2017, Singer was diagnosed with terminal AL amyloidosis.[8] On 8 June 2017, a post by her family on Singer's Facebook page announced that she had died at the age of 60 in Melbourne, Victoria.[9] She had married two months earlier on 8 April 2017, and had a daughter from her first marriage.[10]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Jill Singer, 1957–2017|url=http://about.abc.net.au/statements/jill-singer/|publisher=ABC|accessdate=7 July 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Conference speakers and organisers|url=http://mme.org.au/node/conference-speakers-and-organisers|publisher=Multicultural Media Exchange|accessdate=8 June 2017}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
3. ^Singer gets 'boned' from tabloid column, theage.com.au, 2 March 2012.
4. ^https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3300462
5. ^{{cite web|title=Journalist fought for what she believed in|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/jill-singer-passionate-journalist-was-face-of-today-tonight-20170623-gwxm93.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=27 June 2017}}
6. ^Quills Honour Roll 1999 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518115106/http://www.melbournepressclub.com/quills/honour-roll/1999 |date=18 May 2012 }}, melbournepressclub.com; accessed 24 August 2017.
7. ^Best TV Current Affairs/Feature Under 10 minutes {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719065806/http://www.melbournepressclub.com/quills/2010/best-tv-current-affairsfeature-under-10-minutes/jill-singer-and-lisa-whitehead |date=19 July 2011 }}, melbournepressclub.com; accessed 24 August 2017.
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Dmytryshchak|first1=Goya|last2=Cunningham|first2=Melissa|title=Journalist Jill Singer diagnosed with terminal illness|url=http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/journalist-jill-singer-diagnosed-with-terminal-illness-20170408-gvgp83.html|accessdate=8 April 2017|work=The Age|date=8 April 2017}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=Veteran journalist and broadcaster Jill Singer has died age 60|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/television/veteran-journalist-and-broadcaster-jill-singer-has-died-age-60/news-story/95ecce0994f6232f98f94a2ad8d1acab|accessdate=8 June 2017|work=Herald Sun|date=8 June 2017}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/tributes-flow-for-broadcaster-jill-singer-who-lost-her-battle-with-a-rare-blood-disease/news-story/beb78fd15336f900724c38c14ed22bd5|title=Aussie TV’s forgotten queen|website=Dailytelegraph.com.au|accessdate=25 August 2017}}

External links

  • Profile on The Australian Women's Register
  • Brief ABC Art Show biography
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