Eleanor Hall
Eleanor Hall is an Australian journalist and presenter.
Career
Hall graduated with a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and has covered all corners of the globe.
After returning from working and studying in the United States as a recipient of the Harkness Fellowship, in 1990 Eleanor joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has reported and presented for The Drum, ABC News, 7:30 Report, Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and ABC Radio Current Affairs.
Eleanor has travelled extensively in her career taking her to Boston, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, United Kingdom, Hungary, Thailand, the Philippines, India and back to New York.
In 1998 she was the ABC's Washington correspondent covering the Clinton impeachment. Closer to home, Eleanor worked for five years as a senior Current Affairs reporter in the Canberra Parliamentary Press Gallery. She has also reported for television news and current affairs from Sydney and Darwin Prior to joining the ABC and while still a university student, Eleanor was a scriptwriter on the documentary, Chile Hasta Cuando, which won the Brazilian and Cuban film festival awards. She also freelanced for National Public Radio in the United States.
In 2000, Eleanor joined ABC Radio's current affairs reporting team serving AM, PM and The World Today. After a short break for maternity leave, she took up her current position as presenter of The World Today.
In 2009 she won a scholarship to the UK where she completed a term at Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and submitted a paper on politics in the YouTube age, focusing on the Obama e-campaign.
In 2012 she won the European Union Journalist scholarship and reported on cloud technology challenges in the EU.
In 2012 she was asked to become a member of the Australia America Leadership dialogue.