Jason Dasey
| Jason Dasey | |
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Jason Dasey in 2016
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| Born |
11 April 1962 King George V Memorial Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia |
| Residence | Singapore |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Television Presenter, Executive Producer, Journalist, Commentator |
| Employer | The Walt Disney Company |
| Website | Official website |
Jason Dasey (born 11 April 1962) is an Australian-born journalist, broadcaster and digital media executive who works as coordinating producer and senior editor for ESPN at The Walt Disney Company in Singapore. He is best known for being the first Australian sports host on CNN International and BBC World News and the original anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Asia and SportsCenter India (English edition). Based in Asia since 2001, Jason is a Singapore Permanent Resident.
The eldest of four brothers, Jason grew up in Sydney where he attended North Sydney Boys High School and worked as a co-editor of the school's magazine. His first newspaper articles were published at the age of 15 in the North_Shore_Times in 1977. From 1978, he became a freelance sports reporter for Australian Associated Press. At the start of 1980, Jason became a teenage cadet journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's oldest newspaper. In December 1980, he broke his first major story, securing an exclusive interview with a Soviet defector who jumped ship in Sydney Harbour to seek political asylum.
Towards the end of his four years with the Herald, Jason's personal vacation to New York City in September 1983 coincided with Australia winning sailing's America's Cup. Jason borrowed a blazer and talked his way into the New York Yacht Club before sending back an insider's account to the Sydney Morning Herald on the night the United States lost the America's Cup for the first time after 132 years.
That front-page story from a famous edition of the Herald helped 21-year-old Jason land a job at Australia's Seven Network in Sydney. At the end of 1985 after a six-month stint as a researcher for BBC_Nine_O'Clock_News in London, he became a producer and reporter for SBS-TV in Sydney.
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