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Briana Shepherd (born c. 1987[1][2]) is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
Shepherd attended Perth Modern School.[3] In 2005,[3] at age 18, she joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.[1] Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.[1] She was one of several dancers laid off in 2009,[2] after which she returned to Perth.[1]
She has worked as a model for Vivien's Model Management.[1][3][4]
Shepherd obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter.[5] In 2016, she filled in for James McHale reading the news.[1] From August 2021 to June 2022[6] she presented the news on Friday-Sunday, while Charlotte Hamlyn was on maternity leave.[7]
Shepherd is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of West Australian Ballet's inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. Shepherd is a guest teacher at the Institute.[8]
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