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#371: Becoming the second ever Female TV Commentator for Triple M and Fox Footy, with Jess Webster
Meet Jess Webster, AFL play-by-play commentator for Triple M and Fox Footy.
Two nights before we recorded this podcast, she was on stage accepting the Clinton Grybas Emerging Talent Award at the AFL Media Awards.
Jess grew up in Brisbane with three older brothers, running the scoreboard at her local footy ground for a pie and a can of Coke and umpiring boundary as a high-school casual. She studied journalism at Monash and the University of Queensland, did six weeks of TV internships that led nowhere, then moved to Darwin with no job, where someone resigned at the NT News two weeks later and…
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