{{Short description|Australian journalist, reporter & news presenter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Briana Shepherd''' (born {{circa|1987}}<!--"29-year-old" in 2016--><ref name=PerthNow/><!--22 in 2009--><ref name=NewYorkTimes/>) is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
She attended Perth Modern School<ref name=Facebook>{{citation|url=https://www.facebook.com/briana.shepherd.54|title=Briana Shepherd|publisher=Facebook|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> and, in 2005,<ref name=Facebook/> at age 18, joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.<ref name=PerthNow>{{cite web|url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/briana-shepherd-new-york-ballerina-and-model-turned-perth-reporter-and-abc-newsreader-ng-78d1b5ad04587ada0601ce7ff96dd961|title=Briana Shepherd, New York ballerina and model turned Perth reporter and ABC newsreader|author=Linda Parri|work=Perth Now|publisher=West Australian Newspapers|date=2016-08-22|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> After suffering stress fractures, she left the company in 2009<ref name=NewYorkTimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/dance/26waki.html|title=Sudden Finale|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Daniel J Wakin|date=2009-07-22|access-date=2021-10-24}}</ref> and returned to Perth.<ref name=PerthNow/>
Shepherd obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/briana-shepherd/6843240 |title=Briana Shepherd|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>
Shepherd is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, an inaugural dancer of the West Australian Ballet and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute.<ref>{{cite web | first=Helena |last=Cohen-Robertson |title=Terri Charlesworth and Sonya and Briana Shepherd | website=Know Your Nation | date=25 February 2019 | url=https://www.knowyournation.com.au/vincent-creatives/terri-sonya-briana | access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>
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