Briana Shepherd

”’Briana Shepherd”’ (born {{circa|1987}}<!–“29-year-old” in 2016–><ref name=PerthNow/><!–22 in 2009–><ref name=NewYorkTimes/>) is a [[Western Australia]]n journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.

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Shepard attended [[Perth Modern School]].<ref name=Facebook>{{cite|url=https://www.facebook.com/briana.shepherd.54|title=Briana Shepherd|publisher=Facebook|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> In 2005,<ref name=Facebook/> at age 18, she joined the [[New York City Ballet]], the first Australian to do so.<ref name=PerthNow>{{cite web|url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/briana-shepherd-new-york-ballerina-and-model-turned-perth-reporter-and-abc-newsreader-ng-78d1b5ad04587ada0601ce7ff96dd961|title=Briana Shepherd, New York ballerina and model turned Perth reporter and ABC newsreader|author=Linda Parri|work=Perth Now|publisher=West Australian Newspapers|date=2016-08-22|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.<ref name=PerthNow/>

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She was one of several dancers laid off in 2009,<ref name=NewYorkTimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/dance/26waki.html|title=Sudden Finale|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Daniel J Wakin|date=2009-07-22|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> after which she returned to Perth.<ref name=PerthNow/>

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She has worked as a model for Vivien’s Model Management.<ref name=PerthNow/><ref name=Facebook/><ref>{{cite|url=https://viviensmodels.com.au/models/briana-shepherd/https://viviensmodels.com.au/models/briana-shepherd/|title=Briana Shepherd|publisher=Vivien’s Model Management|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref>

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Shephard 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 (Australia)|ABC News]] Perth as journalist and reporter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/briana-shepherd/6843240|title=Briana Shepherd|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> In 2016, she filled in for [[James McHale]] reading the news,<ref name=PerthNow/> and in August 2021<ref>{{cite tweet|user=charlottehamlyn|number=1421830222979026949|author=Charlotte Hamlyn|title=Big girl signing off for now. *ditches scripts* Much love and thanks to the @abcperth gang.|date=2021-08-01|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> replaced [[Charlotte Hamlyn]] presenting the news on Friday-Sunday.

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Shepard is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of [[West Australian Ballet]]’s inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. Shepard is a guest teacher at the Institute.<ref>{{cite|url=https://library.vincent.wa.gov.au/local-history-centre/oral-histories/arts-in-vincent-series-2.aspx|title=Arts in Vincent|publisher=City of Vincent|date=2019-01-21<!–From embedded YouTube–>|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref>

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