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Spicer at the Australian film premiere of Grace of Monaco, June 2014
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Born | 1967 (age 49–50) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Occupation | Sky News Australia Journalist |
Spouse(s) | Jason |
Children | Taj (born 2004) Grace (born 2006) |
Website | http://spicercommunications.biz |
Tracey Spicer (born 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian news reader and journalist, she runs media company Spicercommunications . She is best known for her long association with Network Ten as a national newsreader with news bulletins Ten Weekend News, Ten Morning News and Ten Late News - Weekend Edition in the 1990s and 2000s. Prior to presenting the national news, Spicer co-hosted Ten News at Five in Brisbane, Queensland from 1994-1995.
Spicer attended high school in Brisbane and graduated at the top of her class. She received a Bachelor of Business in communications from the Queensland University of Technology.
She began her career at the Macquarie National News service providing reports to the Brisbane station 4BH and then became chief police reporter and morning news editor at Melbourne station 3AW. Spicer then moved on to television: first reporting on courts and industry for Southern Cross Television, then hosting Melbourne Extra on the Nine Network affiliate in Melbourne, GTV, and reporting from Melbourne for the National Nine News. ATV, the Network Ten station in Melbourne, later hired Spicer as a local correspondent before promoting her to the national Ten Weekend News in 1995, which in the same year she began presenting the Weekend Bulletin(s) of Ten Late News until it was axed in 2005. Until 2006, Spicer would remain with Ten, and she became a newsreader of the Ten Morning News in 1999. She would continue to present both Ten Morning News and Ten Weekend News until the end of 2006. For the World Wildlife Fund, Spicer produced a documentary in 2001 about fresh water shortages in deforested areas of Papua New Guinea.