Charmaine Dragun
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Charmaine Dragun on vacation in Croatia
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Charmaine Dragun 21 March 1978 Perth, Western Australia |
| Died | 2 November 2007 (aged 29) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, news presenter |
| Partner(s) | Simon Struthers (fiancé) |
| Family | Estelle and Michael Dragun (parents) |
Charmaine Margaret Dragun (/ˈdræɡuːn/; 21 March 1978 – 2 November 2007) was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was a co-anchor on Ten Eyewitness News. Dragun, who had been diagnosed with depression and had a history of anorexia, died by suicide on 2 November 2007.
Dragun graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a degree in broadcast journalism. She began her career as a radio journalist and newsreader at Perth radio stations 6PR and 96FM. She was nominated for Young Journalist Of The Year and won both the Australian and state Best radio Reports award.
Dragun switched from radio to television when she was offered a position at Network Ten. She started out reporting a wide range of stories from entertainment news to major national news stories and eventually began court reporting regularly. She occasionally filled in as a presenter on Perth's Ten News at Five and on 4 July 2005, she was appointed as permanent news anchor for the show, which was broadcast from Network Ten's Sydney studio TEN at Pyrmont, New South Wales. She was a main co-anchor of Ten Eyewitness News and also filled in on the national morning and weekend news bulletins and presented Ten Late News on Fridays. Dragun's co-anchor, veteran broadcaster Tim Webster, described her as "one of the most professional I've ever seen, very meticulous...if she made a mistake she was distraught about it."
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