Ashleigh Gillon
Ashleigh Gillon | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Known for | Sky News Australia |
Ashleigh Gillon is an Australian journalist affiliated with Sky News Australia.
Career
Gillon started her professional journey at a radio station located in Vancouver, Canada. She joined Sky News Australia in 2004, initially working as a producer. In 2011, she was honored with the Wallace Brown Award recognizing young journalists in the Canberra Press Gallery and also received an ASTRA Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.
Her tenure at Sky News included anchoring Lunchtime Agenda from the Canberra bureau before relocating to Perth to present the afternoon news segment. During the Lindt cafe siege in 2014, Gillon served as the lead anchor for coverage. Later, after moving to Melbourne, she took on hosting duties for the weekend show Weekend Live with Ashleigh Gillon.
In a 2016 interview, Gillon revealed that a male Government minister persistently requested that she apply his make-up prior to interviews when they were alone, a behavior that ceased only after intervention by colleague David Speers.
Personal life
Gillon completed her education at St Mary's Anglican Girls' School and holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Curtin University, supplemented by a degree in marketing and media.
She is married to Aaron Hood, an equity fund director, and they have one daughter born in 2013. Prominent political figures publicly extended their congratulations to Gillon, including Barnaby Joyce during an interview and then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard following her daughter's birth. Additionally, Joyce announced her engagement to Hood live on air two years prior.