Nine journalist Jayne Azzopardi will replace Brooke Boney in the news chair on Today.
After 5 years at Today during the entertainment rounds and news, Boney announced her departure from the show in March, leaving for a place at Oxford University.
Steven Burling, director of morning television at Nine said that Azzopardi’s career has been “an extraordinary one”.
“Across her career at Nine, Jayne has quite literally done it all,” he said.
“She has covered politics in Canberra, including two Federal Elections and several leadership changes; she’s been witness to and reported from the most significant news events of the past decade. For the last couple of years, Jayne has been co-hosting Weekend Today with Clint Stanaway.”
Azzopardi will start on Today next week.
Renee Bargh has also been confirmed to be joining Today to cover the entertainment round alongside Richard Wilkins.
Burling said, “Renee has had an equally extraordinary career in her field – from Channel [V] – to moving to Los Angeles in 2010 to be a correspondent and weekend co-host of EXTRA. Returning to Australia, Renee fronted The Voice with Darren McMullan.
“Over the past couple of years, Renee has been filling in on Today over summers and has quickly become part of our team.
“It’s a privilege that we get to welcome Jayne and Renee to Today.”
In March, Boney said, “I don’t want to go into too much right now, because there’ll be plenty of time for goodbyes and thank yous, but I just wanted to share that good slash bad news with you all this morning.
“It’s been a dream of mine to be able to study at an overseas university, and it just felt like the right time to take that step.
“I’m so grateful to come in here every day and I love you all so much. So it’s made the decision really difficult. But it just means that you’ll all have to plan trips to the UK to come and visit.”
Boney joined the Today Show at the start of 2019 as the show’s entertainment reporter, making the move over from triple j where she was a newsreader.
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