Jennifer Hansen

Jennifer Hansen is an Australian journalist and former news presenter on Network 10's Ten News in Melbourne. She has also been a newsreader and co-host on The More Music Breakfast Show with Mike Perso on smoothfm 91.5 Early life and education Hansen was born in Orbost and raised in suburban Melbourne; the psychologist Margot Prior was her stepmother and she had seven siblings and half-siblings, including a sister who died in infancy. She attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School and graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Arts degree in English literature and criminology, and later studied professional writing and editing at RMIT University. Career While a student in the late 1980s, Hansen worked as a reporter at two newspapers, The Southern Cross and the Sunday Observer, and joined Network 10, where in 1995 she became a news presenter on Ten News. She co-hosted the Melbourne evening news broadcast with Mal Walden until leaving the network in January 2006.