Vanessa O'Hanlon


Vanessa O'Hanlon is an Australian television presenter. She is currently a Sydney-based presenter for the Nine Network, reporting for Nine's Late News while her regional news service for the Australian Capital Territory and southern regions of New South Wales has been temporarily suspended due to the COVID19 Pandemic, O'Hanlon also occasionally presents and reads the news on Weekend Today. O'Hanlon previously presented the weather on ABC Television's national breakfast program ABC News Breakfast from 2008 until 2016.

Early life

O'Hanlon is the eldest of five children and grew up in Melton, Victoria. O'Hanlon listed Jana Wendt as a presenter that inspired her during her childhood.

Early career

O'Hanlon studied a Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University, majoring in psychology and public relations.
After studying a radio course jointly offered by Swinburne University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School O'Hanlon took up a position as a drive announcer at Sun 969 in Alice Springs before moving onto another radio station in Shepparton, Victoria. She then became a music director at a radio station in Darwin, Northern Territory.
O'Hanlon then moved back to Melbourne where she became a traffic reporter for the Australian Traffic Network delivering traffic reports for Sunrise, Ten News at Five, 3AW and Fox FM. O'Hanlon also hosted a night radio show on Mix 101.1 called Melbourne After Dark.

ABC News Breakfast

In late 2008, O'Hanlon was employed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to be the weather presenter on its fledgling national breakfast program ABC News Breakfast, produced from Melbourne.
O'Hanlon remained in the role for eight years and announced her departure from ABC News Breakfast on 2 November 2016.

Nine News

In early November, the Nine Network announced that O'Hanlon and experienced newsreaders Jo Hall and Samantha Heathwood were the three presenters they had chosen to anchor its new regional news service, that it planned to launch in 2017 throughout the Australian Capital Territory, southern New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
O'Hanlon said she was drawn to the project as the new service reached into regions that hadn't had local news for a considerable amount of time.
During the 2020 CoronaVirus Pandemic, O'Hanlon's Southern New South Wales and Canberra Regional Bulletin were suspended. O'Hanlon was redeployed onto Nine's Late News until further notice. References