Description: The homepage of Kay Stammers, accomplished television newsreader, reporter and producer, who worked for all major television networks before moving to video production and authoring books.
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A veteran journalist and newsreader with over 25 years experience in mainstream television, Kay has reported, presented and produced for all five free-to-air networks. She is also a multi award-winning documentary and video producer (with a special interest in health and medical issues), former teacher and lecturer in English, and author.
Kay was one of the pioneer female television journalists, beginning her career in the seventies as reporter for Nine's ground-breaking daytime current affairs show No Man's Land – produced and presented by women for women – before being snapped up by Mike Willesee for his new current affairs program 24 Hours , screened nationally on the 0/Ten Network.
She entered television quite by chance, after a career in teaching lasting three years. While sunbathing in a bikini at Sandringham Beach during the summer holidays, she was approached by a news photographer to take her photo. That photo appeared the next day on Page 3 of The Sun, prompting an old university friend, now working as a producer at GTV9 News, to give her a call and offer her an audition for a new all-women current affairs show. She got the job, and teaching was swapped for a career in televisio