Heather Foord

Heather Foord (born 1965) is an Australian television journalist.

Career

Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.

For a duration of three weeks from Monday, 8 October 2007, Foord also presented the news bulletins for the Nine Network's Today, an additional duty requiring her to fly between Sydney and Brisbane daily.

Foord attended Brisbane State High School for her secondary education. After graduating from the University of Queensland, Foord worked with Good Morning Australia at Network Ten before joining Nine News as a reporter. She quickly made the transition to news reader, taking a weekend hosting position after 6 months.

While her daughters India, Grace, Riley and Maya were young, Heather returned to the weekend news desk so she could spend more time with her family, but returned to the main desk in 2003 - a position she held until November 2008, when Foord announced her retirement from the News Desk after 21 years. Channel Nine Brisbane announced soon after that Melissa Downes would take her place in 2009.

Foord was announced as the host of Channel Nine Brisbane's Extra in January 2009 replacing Jillian Whiting. Extra was axed in late June, and Foord moved back to Nine News in July as the weekend presenter.

Aside from working on with Channel Nine, Foord is an advocate supporting sufferers of cerebral palsy, a condition which affects her nephew.

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Preceded by unknown Jillian Whiting	Nine News Queensland Weekend Presenter with Mike London (1989, 2002-2003), Dean Felton (1990-1991) 1989 – December 1991 2002 - 2004	Succeeded by Kym Carter Jillian Whiting
Preceded by Robin Parkin Jillian Whiting	Nine News Queensland Weeknight Presenter with Mike London (1992-1995), Bruce Paige (1996-2002, 2004-2008) January 1992 – 2002 2004 – December 2008	Succeeded by Jillian Whiting Melissa Downes
Preceded by Eva Milic	Nine News Queensland Weekend Presenter July 2009 – July 2011	Succeeded by Eva Milic

Nine News presenters

National	Sylvia Jeffreys Deborah Knight Amelia Adams Davina Smith

State-based	Peter Overton Georgie Gardner Melissa Downes Andrew Lofthouse Eva Milic Alison Ariotti Darren Curtis Bruce Paige Wendy Kingston Peter Hitchener Alicia Loxley Kate Collins Brenton Ragless Will McDonald Tim McMillan Emmy Kubainski Louise Momber Jonathan Uptin Amy Culpitt

Regional	Jo Hall Samantha Heathwood Vanessa O'Hanlon

Sport	Tim Gilbert Cameron Williams Wally Lewis Ian Healy Paddy Kilmurray Tony Jones Clint Stanaway Warren Tredrea Kym Dillon Michael Thomson Jake Hauritz

Weather	Steven Jacobs Amber Sherlock Garry Youngberry Luke Bradnam Courtney Pattinson Livinia Nixon Virginia Langeberg Scherri-Lee Biggs

Finance	Ross Greenwood

Past	Mike Bailey Stephanie Brantz Paul Burt Anna Coren Kevin Crease Ellen Fanning Mark Ferguson Heather Foord Sharyn Ghidella Troy Grey Natalie Gruzlewski Grant Hackett Peter Harvey Brian Henderson Peter Holland Rebecca Judd Helen Kapalos Rob Kelvin Mike London Georgina McGuinness Dixie Marshall Keith Martyn Xavier Minniecon Sarah Harris Mike Munro Brian Naylor Kelly Nestor Bruce Paige Greg Pearce Mark Readings John Riddell Hugh Riminton Ian Ross Sally Ayhan Yvonne Sampson Sharlyn Sarac Jaynie Seal Tim Sheridan Kellie Sloane Michael Smyth Ken Sutcliffe Matt Tinney Michael Usher Jim Waley Kim Watkins Jana Wendt Jillian Whiting Majella Wiemers

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