Residence Sydney Years active 2006 – present Spouse Alex Hart (m. 2015) | Occupation Journalist Website Laura Jayes | |
Known for Journalism, television presenting TV shows The Latest with Laura Jayes, Agenda Similar Kieran Gilbert, David Speers, Brooke Corte, Paul Murray, Janine Perrett Profiles | ||
Laura Jayes is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
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Jayes currently hosts The Latest with Laura Jayes on Sky News Australia.
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Career
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. She was the presenter of Lunchtime Agenda before the program was axed in June 2015.
Jayes returned to Sydney in 2014 and in 2015 began anchoring the Friday edition of NewsDay. Jayes was nominated as favourite female personality in the 2014 ASTRA Awards.
On 18 January 2016, Jayes was given her own primetime program The Latest with Laura Jayes which airs on weeknights.
In November 2016, Jayes became just the third Australian journalist granted a visa to Nauru, which houses a large Australian asylum seeker processing centre. Nauru has restricted access to the country to members of the media.
Personal life
Jayes grew up in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla. In October 2015, Jayes married Seven News reporter Alex Hart in Adelaide and the couple live in Bellevue Hill. In December 2016, Jayes announced that she is pregnant with her first child. Jayes' birthday is Christmas Eve.