The Seven Network has appointed Erin Edwards as Brisbane and Gold Coast news director, effective 2025.
Reporting to Seven Network’s director of news and current affairs and Seven West Media editor- in-chief Anthony De Ceglie, Edwards will be responsible for the editorial and managerial leadership of the Brisbane and Gold Coast newsrooms.
Queensland-born Edwards is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and will return to Seven after a stint at Network 10, where she has been executive editor of 10 News Queensland, since June 2023.
Before Network 10, she spent 22 years as a senior journalist with Seven in Mackay, Townsville, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane.
De Ceglie said Edwards is a proven leader whose heart never really left Seven.
"She’s a first-class team player and decision maker with impeccable news judgement and a real will to teach and develop all staff," De Ceglie said.
“7NEWS is an integral part of the lives of the community in Brisbane and the Gold Coast and I can’t wait for Erin and the team to take it to even greater heights.”
Seven Queensland managing director Todd Dickinson said the News team admires and respects Erin massively.
"Not just as a journalist but as a leader and, most of all, as a person," Dickinson said.
"They are ecstatic she is coming back home where she belongs – and I feel exactly the same.”
Edwards said she is thrilled to return home to 7NEWS Brisbane and Gold Coast.
“I was a teenager when I first walked into a Seven newsroom as an intern. I grew up within its walls and over two decades shared some of this state’s biggest stories. I can’t wait to tell more," Edwards said.
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