Rosemary Church
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| Born | (1962-11-10) 10 November 1962 (age 61)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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| Education | Australian National University University of Canberra |
| Occupation(s) | CNN International anchor and correspondent (1998–present) |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Rosemary Church (born 10 November 1962) is an Australian CNN International news anchor. Based at the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, she anchors the 2 to 4 a.m. ET edition of CNN Newsroom. She previously worked as a reporter and newsreader for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, news and current affairs division.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Church has lived in England and Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in Media and Law.[1][2]
Church joined CNN International in August 1998 as an anchor on World News, based in the network's Atlanta headquarters.[3]
AtABC News, she primarily worked for the international arm Australia Television as Senior Anchor.[4][2] She also reported for the program Foreign Correspondent and anchored the evening news in Tasmania[5] and the summer edition of The World At Noon.[3]
Previously she presented weekend weather on Ten Capital[6] and worked for five years in Canberra for the National Media Liaison Service. She was also an news anchor on Ten Capital.[3]
Church spent several years in the late 1980s to early 1990s as the host of a Sunday morning radio show "Church on Sunday" on 2SSS-FM,[3] later called Triple S,[7][8] covering music and happenings in Canberra with notable guests such as Marilyn Dooley, National Film and Sound Archive[9] and regular phone in guests like Keith (KC Bell) from Scullin, a rock and roll trivia buff, among others.[10] 2SSS-FM was a community sports radio station, managed by James Patterson,[7] covering the Canberra region. It ran from 1986 to 2003.[8][11] Another notable that started out on Triple S was Gaven Morris,[12] who was later with CNN before returning to Australia to rejoin the ABC as Director of News (2015).[8]
Church won the New York Festival's TV programming award (silver) for coverage of the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.[2]
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