{"id":822,"date":"2024-11-01T11:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=822"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:31:18","slug":"abc-announces-sally-sara-as-2025-host-of-radio-national-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/abc-announces-sally-sara-as-2025-host-of-radio-national-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC announces Sally Sara as 2025 host of radio national breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning journalist Sally Sara has been announced as the new presenter of\u00a0Radio National Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0in 2025, with audiences hearing the news on the program this morning from outgoing presenter Patricia Karvelas.<\/p>\n

Sally has\u00a0reported from more than 40 countries as an ABC foreign correspondent, including across Africa, Iraq, India and Afghanistan, and worked for\u00a0Landline<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Foreign Correspondent<\/em>. She has extensive experience in audio journalism and since 2020 has been presenter of\u00a0The World Today.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely grateful for the opportunity to join the\u00a0Radio National Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0team. I can\u2019t wait,\u201d Sally says. \u201cI will work hard to engage the audience with stories from across the country and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Sally on\u00a0Radio National Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0will be political correspondent Melissa Clarke, business correspondent Peter Ryan and news presenter Luke Siddham Dundon.<\/p>\n

Melissa Clarke<\/strong>\u00a0is the ABC\u2019s National Affairs Editor, based at Parliament House in Canberra. She has worked in the parliamentary press gallery for 16 years and has been the ABC\u2019s Deputy Editor, Politics and political correspondent for\u00a0News Breakfast, AM<\/em>\u00a0and the 7PM News bulletins.<\/p>\n

Peter Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0is the ABC\u2019s Senior Business Correspondent with almost 40 years\u2019 experience in journalism. He joins Radio National Breakfast after a long career with flagship ABC programs such as\u00a0AM, The World Today\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0PM\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<\/em>is a former ABC Business Editor and Washington Bureau Chief.<\/p>\n

Luke Siddham Dundon<\/strong>\u00a0has been a familiar voice on Radio National for five years, bringing listeners the latest news on\u00a0Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0and filling in as host on\u00a0Life Matters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The World Today<\/em>. He has also worked on\u00a0News Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Insiders<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After 10 years with Radio National Patricia Karvelas is moving to a cross-platform role with ABC NEWS presenting\u00a0Q+A<\/em>,\u00a0Afternoon Briefing<\/em>\u00a0and podcasts\u00a0Politics Now<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Party Room<\/em>, as well as writing analysis for ABC NEWS online.<\/p>\n

\u201cSally is one of the ABC\u2019s most experienced journalists and beloved foreign correspondents,\u201d Patricia says. \u201cI\u2019m so happy for the Radio National listeners who will not only receive first class news and analysis every day but also benefit from Sally\u2019s deep international experience at this time of great global upheaval.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC Director, News Justin Stevens: \u201cSally Sara is a hugely experienced journalist and broadcaster and it\u2019s wonderful to welcome her to this key role on\u00a0Radio National Breakfast.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cPatricia Karvelas has contributed enormously in this role, following on from Fran Kelly\u2019s 17 years with the program, and Sally will continue a great tradition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSally Sara, Peter Ryan, Melissa Clarke and Luke Siddham Dundon make a formidable team who will bring great expertise and insights to audiences and be part of setting the national agenda every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sally Sara will present\u00a0Summer Breakfast\u00a0<\/em>from 16 December to 3 January. The complete new line-up will start on air from 20 January, with the program changing its start time to 5.30am AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning journalist Sally Sara has been announced as the new presenter of\u00a0Radio National Breakfast\u00a0in 2025, with audiences hearing the news on the program this morning from outgoing presenter Patricia Karvelas. Sally has\u00a0reported from more than 40 countries as an ABC foreign correspondent, including across Africa, Iraq, India and Afghanistan, and worked for\u00a0Landline\u00a0and\u00a0Foreign Correspondent. She has … Continue reading “ABC announces Sally Sara as 2025 host of radio national breakfast”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}