| Laura Jayes | |
| Birth Date: | 1983 12, df=yes |
| Occupation: | Journalist, television presenter |
| Years Active: | 2006–present |
| Employer: | Sky News Australia |
Laura Jayes (born 24 December 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She currently co-hosts First Edition and AM Agenda on Sky News Australia.[1]
Jayes joined Sky News in 2006 as a reporter, and in 2011 became a political reporter and member of the press gallery based in Canberra.[1] She was the presenter of Lunchtime Agenda before the program was axed in June 2015.[2] [3]
Jayes returned to Sydney in 2014 and in 2015 began anchoring the Friday edition of NewsDay.[1] Jayes was nominated as favourite female personality in the 2014 ASTRA Awards.[4]
On 18 January 2016, Jayes was given her own primetime program The Latest with Laura Jayes which aired on weeknights.[5] [6]
In November 2016, Jayes became just the third Australian journalist granted a visa to Nauru, which houses a large Australian asylum seeker processing centre, the Nauru Regional Processing Centre. Nauru has restricted access to the country to members of the media.[7]
In October 2018, Jayes moved from hosting NewsDay to co-hosting breakfast programs First Edition and AM Agenda.[8]
Jayes grew up in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla.[9] In October 2015, Jayes married Seven News reporter Alex Hart in Adelaide and the couple live in Bellevue Hill.[10] In December 2016, Jayes announced that she was pregnant with her first child.[11]