Patricia Karvelas

Patricia Karvelas is an Australian radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent.

Patricia Karvelas
Born
Australia
OccupationAustralian radio presenter
Known forCurrent affairs journalism and
Political correspondence

Karvelas currently hosts RN Drive on Radio National and Afternoon Briefing on ABC News.

Education

Karvelas graduated from RMIT University [1]

Career

Karvelas has presented Radio National's program RN Drive since January 2015 and national affairs television program on the ABC News 24 channel.[2]

She previously worked for The Australian newspaper, covering federal politics,[3] and Karvelas, a weekly program on Sky News Australia.[4] While at the Australian, Karvelas authored a series of six articles[3] relating to a tweet made by Aboriginal Australian legal academic and writer Larissa Behrendt, which Ms Behrendt has described as a character assassination.[5]

Since April 2016, Karvelas has cohosted political podcast The Party Room.[6] In 2018, she was announced as host of interview-based national affairs program National Wrap.[7]

Karvelas spoke at Womadelaide in 2019.[2]

Personal life

Karvelas is Greek-Australian, her parents originate from the Peloponnese region of Greece.[8]

References
  1. RMIT website, https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2019/may/next-gen-journalism-students-broadcast-federal-election. Accessed 3 May, 2020.
  2. "Patricia Karvelas - WOMADelaide 2019". www.womadelaide.com.au. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ABC Radio National,"Patricia Karvelas."
  4. Sky News Australia, "Patricia Karvelas."
  5. John Huxley (7 May 2011). "Long life of a throwaway tweet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 May 2011
  6. "The Party Room". ABC Radio National Programs. ABC. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  7. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "National Wrap."
  8. Baird, Julia (4 June 2015). "Anything But with RN's Patricia Karvelas". ABC News.
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