Janine Perrett

Janine Perrett is host of the nightly show HeadsUp on Sky News, a nightly commentator on the Speers show, and a weekly panelist on Paul Murray Live as well as guest presenter. She has been with Sky for eight years and before that worked for most major media outlets in Australia from a columnist on Fairfax to guest presenter on ABC radio.

She began her career at The Australian newspaper where she became London correspondent and US correspondent for five years where she covered the US Presidential election, conflicts in Chile, Haiti and Panama, the space shuttle explosion and the Wall Street crash.

For 12 years she worked on the Nine Network’s Sunday and Business Sunday programs and founded and anchored The Small Business Show during that time as well.

In 2007 she was awarded the Knight fellowship to study for one year at Stanford University in the US.