Eleanor Hall

Eleanor Hall was the voice of ABC radio current affairs at lunchtime for almost twenty years as the host of ABC radio's The World Today. A former reporter for ABC TV News, the 7.30 Report, Lateline and Foreign Correspondent, she was the ABC's Washington correspondent in the late 1990s and she worked for five years in the Canberra parliamentary press gallery. Since 2011 she's participated in the Australia America Leadership Dialogue. In 2012 she won the European Union’s Journalism award.