SpencerJolly
- Reporter
Spencer Jolly began his television career in Dunedin, reporting for 60s magazine show Town and Around. He went on to work on election night coverage, Dunedin’s South Tonight, and Fair Go. Jolly moved to Brisbane in the late 70s, and in 1986 began a 27 year stint as a political reporter for Nine News. When he retired in 2013, Nine managing director Kylie Blucher argued Queensland hadn’t seen a better political reporter.
Screenography
2006 Reporter Television
1977 - 2024 Reporter Series
1975 Reporter Television
1975 - 1976 Reporter Series
1972 Interviewer Television
“He covered the tumult of Queensland politics without fear or favour and broke exclusive stories throughout his long and distinguished career with Nine News. He is trusted absolutely by politicians of all political persuasions to keep confidences and is regarded for his fair, straight-down-the-middle reporting.”
— Mike Dalton, Director of Nine News Queensland, June 2013
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The original team behind Fair Go team: from left, reporter Gillian McGregor, Presenter Brian Edwards, lawyer Mike Camp (at back), director/researcher Michael McDonald, PA Anne Keating (in glasses), reporter Spencer Jolly, and at front right, producer Peter Morritt. Reporter Judith Fyfe and her spectacles are hidden behind McGregor.