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Sydney girls on TV

18 of Sydney's female newsmakers gather for a special group photo.

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Meet the female newsmakers, 18 women currently working in News, Current Affairs and Light Entertainment.

They gathered for a group portrait for the Sunday Telegraph.

Update: L To R, (Standing) Janice Peterson, Angela Bishop, Tara Brown, Sonia Kruger, Natalie Barr, Melissa Doyle, Lisa Wilkinson, Magdalena Roze, Natalie Ahmat, Georgie Gardner, Samantha Armytage. L To R, (Seated) Kylie Gillies, Deborah Knight, Natarsha Belling, Wendy Kingston, Hermione Kitson, Sandra Sully and Juanita Phillips.

Many cited Jana Wendt and Liz Hayes as inspirations.

Hayes, 56, said she was “hugely flattered” to hear she had inspired a generation of today’s female presenters and newsreaders.

“I am probably one of the older women on the block now,” Hayes said. “Maybe it’s a marvel to me as much as it is to them I am still here. I actually don’t think to myself: `Gee I’m lucky to have not been pushed out the door yet’.

“But when I started out it wasn’t a career that gave you an indication, for women at least at that point, that it was one which would take you into your 40s, let alone your 50s. Journalism is one of those things that the older you get the better you get – it’s like a fine wine- it’s just experience.”

While the photo consists of Sydney presenters, Seven newsreader Chris Bath was unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict.

Photo: Sam Ruttyn

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  1. How do they get to be called “newsmakers”? None of them make the news, the most they do is report it (most don’t even do that, they simply announce it via a teleprompter). They are TV personalities, not newsmakers.

    A newsmaker is someone who does something worthy of being reported as news — e.g. the PM, Gina, some guy who murders his girlfriend, etc.

    Our US-imported obsession with the people who tell us what news happened each day is very sad and indicative of badly twisted priorities.

  2. Boys/men/women/ladies/girls. Not fussed, however, “all ladies are women, but not all women are ladies”. There is a difference, just as some “men” are still “boys”.

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