Kerry O’Brien Biography
Kerry O’Brien is a Byron Bay-based Australian journalist who was the former editor and host of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) The 7.30 Report and Four Corners. Throughout his career, he has received six Walkley Awards.
How old is Kerry O’Brien? – Age
He is 77 years old as of 27 August 2022. He was born in 1945 in Brisbane, Australia. His real name is Kerry Michael O’Brien.
Kerry O’Brien Family
O’Brien grew up in Brisbane, Queensland, in a Catholic family and attended St Laurence’s College.
Kerry O’Brien Wife – Children
O’Brien has three children from his first marriage and three from his second marriage to Sue Javes, whom he married in 1981.
Kerry O’Brien Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Kerry O’Brien Four Corners
On October 14, 2010, the ABC announced that O’Brien would begin hosting Four Corners in 2011. On November 6, 2015, O’Brien announced his resignation as host of Four Corners. Sarah Ferguson took over as his successor in 2016.
Kerry O’Brien The 7.30 Report
After six years as compère and interviewer for the ABC’s Lateline show, O’Brien went to The 7.30 Report in 1995 as editor, compère, and interviewer. For 20 years, he also hosted and moderated ABC’s election coverage. O’Brien has won numerous honors, including the Gold Walkley, Australia’s highest journalism honor, in 2000. He has also been on The Chaser’s War on Everything multiple times.
O’Brien announced in September 2010 that he would step down as editor and host of The 7.30 Report at the end of the year and move on to new jobs at the ABC in 2011. On the 9th of December, he left The 7.30 Report.
Kerry O’Brien Books
♦ The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
♦ Kerry Brien, A Memoir
♦ Telling it the Way it is: A Personal Journey Kerry O’Brie
Kerry O’Brien Career
He began as a news trainee at Divert 9 in Brisbane in 1966. He has been a general reporter, feature writer, political and foreign correspondent, interviewer, and host, as well as a press secretary for Labor leader Gough Whitlam, in newspapers, wire services, and television news and current affairs.
O’Brien has received six Walkley Awards for his journalistic work throughout his career. In 1982, he won the Gold Walkley, the ceremony’s highest honor, in addition to the award for the best television current affairs report. These were his first two awards. In 1991 and 2000, he received awards once more. In 2010, his last year on The 7.30 Report, he got two honors: one for broadcast talking with and the other for news-casting administration.
In April 2009, he received a Doctor of the University degree from the Queensland University of Technology, and in December 2011, he received a Doctor of Letters honoris causa degree from the University of Queensland.
In 2011, O’Brien was a beneficiary of the Queensland Greats Grants. O’Brien was elected to the Logie Hall of Fame in 2019. O’Brien was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2021, but Margaret Court got the Companion of the Order of Australia, so O’Brien declined the award.