Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s best-loved and former experienced news presenters, and an accomplished MC and speaker.
For 21 years, she had anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. She resigned from the ABC in 2023.
As a cadet journalist for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane in 1982, Juanita then progressed to become a feature writer and columnist. The early nineties saw her progress to be a national presenter on Ten Eyewitness News then Ten News First at Five where she was the lead female presenter for the bulletin for two years.
After a position at Sky News Australia in 1997, Juanita moved to London where she worked as a news presenter at BBC World News while running her own café. She later moved to CNN International which was also based in London, working as co-anchor on CNN Today, before moving back to Australia in 2003.
Once back home, Juanita continued her journalistic career and made the move to ABC News NSW. Since returning to Australia, she is the solo presenter the ABC’s prime time 7pm news bulletin in Sydney.
She is an author, having written “APressure Cooker Saved My Life: how to do it all, have it all, and keep it all together” as well as “The Newspaper Kids”, a series of five children’s books.
For the past 10 years, Juanita has used her interviewing and presenting skills to work as an MC, speaker and panel moderator. She specialises in business, fintech and cyber security, but has a wide range of both business and government clients, including the mining and banking industries, local and state governments, and the finance and technology sector. She is sought-after for her skill in interviewing keynote speakers, and facilitating panel discussions.