Narelda Jacobs

News Anchor, Network Ten

Nerelda is the first Aboriginal, and first openly gay newsreader in Western Australia. She became a single mother at the age of 18 and managed to juggle her commitments to her family with a successful media career, this year becoming the lead news anchor for Ten News in Perth.

Jacobs graduated from the WA Academy of Performing Arts and began her career at GWN in Bunbury, joining Ten News in Perth in 2000, eventually becoming their court reporter, and also filling in as weather presenter for over summer. In 2008, after the sudden death of news anchor Charmaine Dragun, Network Ten announced that production of their Perth news bulletin would return to Perth from Sydney, and they selected Jacobs as the new anchor.