Danielle began her journalism career as a cadet reporter with Network Ten in Townsville while completing her last year of high school. She relocated to Brisbane after she was offered a position as a general news reporter at TEN in 2001.
There Danielle juggled reporting with studying, and completed a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Queensland in 2005.
She worked as a court reporter and parliament reporter, covering the total overhaul of the states health system and winning the Network Ten state reporter (Queensland) award in 2005 before making the move to TEN's Canberra Bureau as a political reporter.
Danielle filled in as TEN's LA Correspondent at TEN's LA Bureau, completed a coveted CNN internship in the USA and was then promoted to TEN's Sydney offices as a national network reporter in 2007.
During her time at TEN Sydney, Danielle had her first taste of being a foreign correspondent, travelling to Iraq for a series of special reports.
Danielle also filled in as a Ten Early News presenter, allowing her to draw on her economics degree to report breaking finance news from across the globe.
In October 2007, she was posted to TEN's London Bureau as TEN's first Europe Correspondent. She travelled extensively during this foreign posting, throughout dozens of countries across the UK, Western and Eastern Europe and the Middle East to cover a wide range of international news and sports stories for TEN’s national bulletins.
Her sports coverage included Australia’s ill fated 2009 Ashes campaign, and the Wallabies Rugby Spring Tours.
Danielle was also recruited to cover the US election from Phoenix, Arizona to report on the McCain/Palin camp defeat, and was sent to the border of Gaza and Israel, to cover the January 2009 conflict. It was for this series of stories, she won Network Ten’s National News Reporter of the Year Award in 2009.
Returning to Australia at the end of 2010, she joined the 630 With George Negus Team and travelled extensively across Australia reporting on the QLD floods and cyclones, in New Zealand on the devastating Christchurch earthquake, back to the UK for the Royal Wedding and the News International phone hacking scandal, as well the devastating mass shooting in Norway.
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