The AirNews Team
The Team
Owner / Managing Director
Executive Officer
Mon and Tue Afternoons and Evenings
Terry Daniel
Terry has been involved in the communications industry since leaving school.
He has worked in commercial radio at 8HA Alice Springs, 2GZ Orange and 2CS Coffs Harbour. Terry has worked every shift and was the Programme Manager and Breakfast Announcer at the brand new 2CS in Coffs Harbour in 1985. He was awarded Best Programme Manager in the Australia wide "Rawards" in 1987.
He is currently the owner of Tee Dee Computers, Discovery Apps, You Voice Over and Online Radio 2DD. Terry purchased Air News from Artie Stevens in July 2019.
The Daniel brothers have all been involved in the radio industry. Richard still working in media throughout South East Asia. Glenn (dec) worked in Sydney Radio News for nearly 40 years.
Leonie Kennedy
Leonie has been a communicator for many years - involved with teaching at TAFE, a board member and Past President of the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce.
In 2018 she joined the On Air team on Radio 2DD and provides voice work for Your Voice Over. Leonie has a clear and concise delivery with a fun personality that shows through everytime.
Leonie covers "live" sports news weeknights on Air News as required and is the organisational anchor behind Air News management.
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Sarah Patterson
Sarah Patterson began her radio career at South Gippsland community station 3MFM before moving to Wangaratta to take up a position as newsreader at local station 3NE.
Since then she has established herself as one of Melbourne’s most recognisable newsreaders. For three years she was the news presenter for Eddie McGuire’s Hot Breakfast show on Triple M. She has been heard on a host of stations including Fox FM, Smooth FM, Nova, Gold FM, Kiis, SEN and RSN 927.
Sarah also enjoyed a brief stint in regional TV, where she was bureau chief at WIN Television in Bendigo.
Now married to radio broadcaster Kevin Hillier, mum to a teenage son and host of the popular Food Bytes podcast, Sarah can be heard Mon and Tue Afternoons and Evenings on AIR News.
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Breakfast News and Sport
State News - NSW VIC QLD WA
Saturday AM
Mornings - Tue to Fri / Sat PM
The World - Wed to Fri
Leigh Harrison
Leigh’s media career spans 40 years. It began as a trainee announcer at 2NZ Inverell, which also gave him his first taste of broadcast journalism.
He later worked in the newsrooms of 3AW and EONFM in Melbourne and was part of the original team at 2CS Coffs Harbour establishing their regional news service.
He’s also held sales and management roles in commercial radio, free-to-air and subscription television.
Radio news has remained Leigh’s first love and he’s thrilled to be back behind the microphone at Air News Media.
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Kym Cartwright
Kym has been with Airnews since 2013, A graduate of WA's Academy of Radio, Kym pursued a career adventure that took her across the nation from her first gig with Sun FM Alice Springs, onto Brisbane and the Gold Coast with Triple M, 97.3, Gold FM and the ABC, Even to the skies and on the TV with the Australian Traffic Network.
Now based in the USA as an actor, Kym once performed as a ballet dancer with the Dallas Opera, and now tours the country as Francesca the Pirate in Nature of Mercy - a comedy swordfighting show that appears in New York, Vegas, Dallas and Florida. Kym is married, has 5 rescue dogs, and a burgeoning Tupperware empire.
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Shaun Bindley
Shaun came to the Air Newsroom following a 5 year stint covering News and Sport for the National Indigenous Radio Service. He began in radio in 1993 at pioneering First Nations station 989fm/4AAA Brisbane.
Shaun presents his revered Blues with a Feeling programme weekly, the programme is available to community stations via Air Distribution.
Outside of radio, he's plied his trade as a musician and actor, while working behind the scenes in the music industry as a promoter, talent buyer, venue booker, publicist and festival consultant. In downtimes, there's usually a guitar close to hand and he's a fan of the West Brisbane Bulldogs, Reds and Hawthorn.
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Sunday AM
Monday AM - TAS / SA / NT / ACT News
Sunday & Wednesday PM
Sarah Wharmby
Starting out at Warrnambool's 3YB in the early 1990's grounded Sarah in everything from music, news and sport.
Moving to Wollongong's Wave FM Sarah worked all shifts from mid-dawns to breakfast.
When she was offered the opportunity to work at 92.5 Gold FM on the Gold Coast Sarah quickly moved to breakfast where for 13 years she co-hosted a top rating breakfast show.
Sarah currently does voiceover work and reads Sunday morning news for AIRNews.
Alan Baskin
A very familiar radio voice has returned to the airwaves, with respected former ARN newsreader Alan Baskin now being heard across the country on Air News.
After more than two decades with the network, Baskin parted ways with ARN last year, his position reading Breakfast news on Adelaide’s Cruise 1323 made redundant.
Alan’s radio news career began at New Zealand’s 1XX back in 1973.
Later that decade, he took up a role at Sydney’s 2WS newsroom, and would go on to spend ten years as News Director at 2GB.
Alan is presenting both state and national news.
Michael Lynch
Michael remembers that the man who granted him an announcer audition with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1966 on meeting him some years later said ‘Once a broadcaster, always a broadcaster’ And how true, Michael has discovered that mantra to be.
In 1997, after working as an announcer and then as a broadcast journalist in New Zealand and Australia for 33 years, Michael found himself still behind a microphone, not in a radio studio but at a lectern in a Melbourne funeral director’s chapel. 22 years and some 2,400 funerals later as a funeral celebrant Michael and his wife Kate returned to family in their native New Zealand last September
It was during his tenure with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and subsequently as News Director for eight years at 3KZ, that radio news became Michael’s métier – and so for him, becoming a news presenter with AIR on Sunday afternoons, really is a case of coming home in more ways than one.
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The World - Mon & Tue
Reporter - VIC
Reporter - QLD and other states
Reporter - NSW and other states
Arthur Stevens
Artie first stepped into radio as a sports reporter in 1969 in his home town of Shepparton at 3SR, but moved into TV for a number of years developing multi-skilling at GMV-6, ATN-7, GTV-9 and ATV-0.
In the mid-80's radio gave him a recall, working at 3KZ/KZFM/Gold 104 Melbourne, including a stint in the newsroom during the Gulf War.
In late 2004 he set up AIR News and for almost 15 years helped build it to where it is today.
In mid-2020 he retired from the breakfast news grind, but continues to produce The World for AIR News and will remain part of the reporting team for Victoria as well as delivering stories through AIR News media's international associate Feature Story News.
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Peter Jones
Peter is our Queensland correspondent.
He has over 40 years experience in all facets of radio, having worked at 4MK, 4TO, 4GR, 4GG, 4MMM, 4KQ, as well as 7BU, 2MW, 5AU and some fill-in work at 5AD and 5DN.
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Darren McErlain
Darren McErlain is the political and crime reporter from Sydney and has been with AIR News since 2018. He started as an intern journalist with ABC Radio News in the mid-90s. He currently presents Classic Hits FM Drive on 87.8FM Newcastle 7 days per week.
Darren is a former reporter for WAMN TV News Perth, and HunterTV Newcastle. He has contributed voiceovers for many community radio and TV projects. He has produced more than 250 history episodes of ‘Remember When’ on radio in Australia and Asia, and on TV Channels 31 Melbourne and 44 Adelaide. Previous roles include playing a newsreader in short films and theatre. Darren is a published poet and a qualified Primary Teacher in Sydney’s west.
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Reporter - WA / NT / ACT / TAS
News Presenter
Nicky Elliott
Nicky is a 30 year radio and television veteran. She has worked across radio stations including 2SM, 2GB and 2UE as an announcer, producer and news reader.
Despite going on to television, feature writing and filmmaking, radio has always been Nicky’s first love. She became obsessed at age 8 when she heard some of the older girls from her town on the local radio station, and realised radio was for everyone.
Nicky has an insatiable appetite for storytelling in all forms. She is Creative Director at Monkey Pants Media in stunning Port Stephens, working as a photographer, graphic designer, writer and filmmaker, and occasionally still shooting News for Channel Nine.
She is thrilled to be in the chair as the newest recruit at AIR News.
Nicky is married to Scott. They have two teenage daughters.
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Reporter - Australia
Shannon Morris
Shannon has worked in TV and Radio broadcasting for close on two decades. He started his radio news journey as the sole Newsreader/Journalist at 2VM/NOW FM in Moree, NSW and has worked for Sky News Australia, WIN Television, Prime7 Television and Olympic Broadcasting Services. He also runs his own production company which has made TV programs for NITV, SBS On Demand and Foxtel and occasionally writes travel articles for several News Limited outlets including Darwin’s ‘Sunday Territorian’ and ‘Gold Coast Sun’. One of his craziest radio moments was playing a Bogan character for a Power FM Hunter Valley, NSW promotion.
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Thu and Fri Afternoons
TAS / SA / NT / ACT News
Peter Carey
Peter has had an extensive career in radio. He has 40 plus years in the industry, hosting all genre of programs from talk-back and music to sports, presenting the breakfast show for many years as well as mornings. He even found himself hosting a children’s TV show in Toowoomba.
Peter began his career with the Color Radio Network debuting at 4LG Longreach, 4LM Mt Isa, 4VL Charleville, 4WK Toowoomba as well as a short stint at 4IP before travelling around the world in the late 70’s.
Upon his return, Peter was offered a Drive time program at 2TM Tamworth before returning to 4WK.
He has combined his vast radio experience overseeing his marketing business, Peter Carey Creative Services, in a diversity of areas; Education, Health and Aged Care, Not-for-Profits as well as Local, State and Federal Government.
Today, Peter is General Manager of Radio Springfield City and can be heard on the Breakfast Show streaming on the World Wide Web and is proud to join the AirNews team.
Reporter - VIC / Sports
Steve Visscher
Steve is a news presenter, reporter, voice-over guy and audio producer, based in Melbourne. He joined the AIR News team in 2017, having learned the craft from a lifetime of talkback radio listening, eventually leading him into podcasting in 2009.
Combining a love of aviation, Steve produces & co-hosts Australia’s best known podcast in it’s genre, Plane Crazy Down Under, and produces many other podcasts including Food Bytes with Sarah Patterson, the Australian Defence Magazine Podcast, and Rogue Bogues by Andrew Bogut.
Steve also likes things that move, and is a big fan of basketball. He is a qualified locomotive driver, holds pilots licences in Australia and the USA, and is an accredited basketball referee.
Reporter State News
SA / TAS / QLD / NT / WA
Scott Mayman
Scott Mayman's broadcast career spans nearly 40 years in Australia and the United States where he's won multiple awards in both countries.
He's been a journalist, reader, news-anchor, news director and show host.
But his greatest reward has been teaching young up and coming journalists in the broadcast industry.
After stints in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney and Kansas City just to name a few, he’s happiest at home on the Gold Coast and sharing a weekend BBQ with a drink in his hand and time with his wife and young son.
Scott continues to work with CBS News as the group's Australian correspondent on Pacifica based stories and is looking forward to coming back to AIR NEWS and catching up with friends and colleagues from an earlier stint.
Reporter - TAS
Josh Agnew
Josh Agnew is a teenager from Tasmania, Australia’s island state.
He owns and operates an FM radio station in Tasmania called Pulse FM.
Pulse FM is a radio station targeted at young people in Southern Tasmania, specifically between 13 and 25 years old.
He has been involved in radio since he was 7 years old, starting out at a rural community radio station. He started an internet radio station called ‘JNET’ when he was 9 years old, and launched Pulse FM when he was 10.
He currently covers news stories for Ultra 106.5 FM in Hobart and Tassie stories for Air News.
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Reporter - Cricket / Football
Reporter - Tennis / Formula 1
Reporter - ACT News
Graham Davis
Graham has been reporting on cricket and football for AIR News since 2008. He's travelled to all major cricket nations to cover Tests for AIR News more than any other Australian journalist during that time. He's also represented AIR News all over the world covering Socceroos matches including all AFC Asian Cups since 2011, the 2017 Confederation Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia travelling far and wide to such places as Ireland, Jordan, Japan, South Korea and Honduras.
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Paul Walsh
Paul Walsh has been involved in broadcasting, in various capacities, for over 35 years. As a 'hands on' broadcaster, Paul writes, produces and edits all his own material and sends it around the country and across the world! As well as being a (former) active participant in a range of different sports (including 4 marathons....one being London!), Paul's passion is now 'talking sport', which he does most effectively at a number of the world's premier sporting events and can be heard reporting on Tennis and Formula 1 on Air News.
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Ainsleigh Sheridan
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Ainsleigh’s media career has spanned print, online and broadcast outlets in south-eastern Australia for more than 20 years as a newspaper and magazine editor, producer-presenter for commercial, public and community radio, voiceover artist, journalism mentor and trainer, and media design consultant. Now pursuing arts sector philanthropy with a side hustle as a trivia host and emcee, she files for AIR News in Canberra and surrounds on weekdays.