Carrie Bickmore

Carrie Bickmore is the laughing man’s newsreader. Mild mannered radio news presenter by day, television news temptress by night; Carrie has a bi-lateral approach to news and isn’t afraid to laugh at herself or the weirdness that can often be headline news.

As the voice behind the weekday news on Melbourne’s Nova 100, Carrie plays it straight and reports real news as it breaks. As the face behind the voice behind Rove’s newsbreak, Carrie still plays it straight, only this time the news isn’t real and the only things breaking are the rules of political correctness.

Although born in Adelaide, Carrie is affectionately known as a ’Sandgroper’, thanks to spending the majority of her childhood and formative years in Perth. Since relocating to Melbourne almost five years ago, Carrie has developed a reputation as a multi-dimensional news talent, based on her ability to fuse news reporting with comedy and relaxed on-air banter.

A graduate of Journalism and Public Relations, Carrie first caught the attention of WA’s radio heavyweights during a work experience placement with 92.9FM. As the result of a newsroom colleague falling ill on the job, Carrie was thrust into the studio as an emergency replacement and forced to read the news live to air.

Unscathed by this baptism of fire, Carrie took the opportunity in her stride, and her engaging style of presenting secured her a full time reporting role with the station immediately after switched off the microphone that day. Incidentally, the wellbeing of the other newsreader remains a mystery.

In 2001 Carrie relocated to Melbourne and reported to Nova 100 for news-reading detail, which she does (most of the time without laughing during the serious bits) on the afternoon drive program. Coupled with the occasional on-air announcing spot and voice-over work, Carrie is also in demand as a Television and Corporate presenter, and as the current face of SKYBUS TV is involved in filming television segments promoting the best of greater Melbourne.

In effect, Carrie Bickmore is a television newsreader in a radio newsreader’s body. But in this instance, the adage ’good head for radio’, doesn’t ring true.

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