Jacinta Tynan

Presenter, Sky News

Jacinta Tynan is a television journalist, author and columnist who is also regarded as a commentator for her generation with her popular and candid columns about contemporary life, love and getting it right, and the joys of motherhood.

Jacinta is one of Australia's most experienced news presenters and has worked in front of the camera in the UK and the US. Now an anchor with Sky News Australia and a regular on Channel Seven's Sunrise, Jacinta has made numerous guests appearances including on Insight (SBS), and Today Tonight's special on Australia's Most Influential Women. She was also brave enough to appear on The Chaser!

Jacinta Tynan is an engaging and popular MC and public speaker who is highly respected for her professionalism as well as her ability to add fun and humour to events.

Jacinta has had an extensive career as a television journalist. Prior to joining Sky News, she presented news for ABC TV's international satellite news service, ABC Asia Pacific, was a reporter for the 7:30 Report, a journalist on the National News team and a back-up presenter for the 7pm Sydney Bulletin, Weekend  News and World at Noon.

Jacinta Tynan has also worked as a current affairs reporter for Australia's Seven Network (filing from North America and the UK), was the London-based producer for NBC America's entertainment programs and an international news producer for APTN London.

Since the release of her first book, Good Man Hunting and the success of her newspaper column in the Sunday Telegraph, Jacinta has been in high demand to speak about the so-called plight of single women in their thirties and the pressure to meet a man and have babies. Her second book, Some Girls Do: My Life as a Teenager (Allen and Unwin) is an anthology of women writing the true story of their adolescence. Royalties are donated to SISTER2Sister - a mentor program for disadvantaged teenage girls - for whom Jacinta is Patron.

In 2006, Jacinta was personally invited by the former Federal Communications Minister, Senator The Honourable Helen Coonan MP to MC a gala dinner to celebrate the history of women in Cabinet, in The Great Hall at Parliament House, Canberra, with then Prime Minister John Howard as Guest Speaker. She also MC'd the annual Power of Women dinner, hosted by Senator Helen Coonan to coincide with the 2007 Federal Budget.

Jacinta Tynan has a Bachelor of Communications from Australia's prestigious Charles Sturt University majoring in Broadcast Journalism (High Distinction average). She also studied at Canada's Vancouver Film School (1996) and wrote and produced a short film which was a semi-finalist in Australia's Tropfest 2000 Awards.