Matt Doran (Journalist) Bio, Age, Family, Wife, 7News, Net worth

Matt Doran Biography

Matt Doran is an Australian Emmy-nominated television host and an awarded investigative reporter. He co-hosts Weekend Sunrise with Monique Wright on 7News.

He has covered major international stories from all corners of the globe. He anchored rolling live coverage of the winter Olympics in Russia and has been awarded by the United Nations (UN) for outstanding television reporting. In 2017, he was a top-three finalist in the prestigious Walkley Awards and also nominated for a Logie Award for a dangerous undercover investigation in Haiti.

Matt Doran Age

Matt is 38 years old as of 2022. He was born on 22nd December 1983 in Melbourne, Australia.

Matt Doran Height

He stands at an estimated height of 5 feet, 8inches tall.

Matt Doran Education

Matt graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Media and Communications in 2003. He had previously completed his Victorian Certificate of Education from St Kevin’s College in Toorak, Victoria.

Matt Doran Parents

Matt was born and raised by his parents in Melbourne, Australia. His mother is known as Paula Doran, but he has not disclosed the identity of his father. He has not disclosed much information concerning his parents and siblings, however, shall be updated as soon as it is available.

Matt Doran Wife

Doran married his wife Kendall Bora in December 2021. Kendall also works in the media industry as she is an executive producer for Weekend Today ay Nine. She previously worked as Supervising producer for Your Money. She began her career at Nine Network Australia as a Chief of Staff for Today Extra before she was promoted to senior lineup producer for the Newsroom.

Matt Doran Son

As of 2022, Matt and his wife have no children.

Matt Doran Seven News

Matt is a co-presenter of Weekend Sunrise with Monique Wright. He joined Seven Network in March 2017 as a reporter for Sunday Night. He was announced as a co-host of Weekend Sunrise in October 2019 where he had previously been an intermittent fill-in host.

He began his career working as a police reporter with Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper where he covered fires, floods, the gangland war, and CBD shootings. He had previously worked as a reporter and senior editor across a number of mastheads within News Ltd’s Leader newspaper group.

He later joined Network Ten as a general news reporter and then police reporter for Network Ten in Melbourne and Adelaide. He covered several natural disasters for the network including, the devastating Christchurch earthquakes, the deadly Pike River mine explosion in New Zealand’s West, the Christmas Island boat tragedy, and the tsunami which obliterated North-East Japan.

In October 2011 he began presenting Ten News at Five: Weekend alongside Natarsha Belling. He left the bulletin in November 2012 after it changed to a single-presenter format. He continued to be a fill-in presenter and a senior reporter with Ten News.

He began presenting Ten Eyewitness News Early and Ten Eyewitness News Morning in November 2013. He was however replaced by Hermione Kitson on Ten Eyewitness News Early in January 2014. He continued as a presenter on Ten Eyewitness News Morning until it was canceled in May 2014 and he returned to reporting. He resigned from the network in May 2015.

In 2015 he moved to Los Angeles where he was the host of Crime Watch Daily, a daily syndicated true crime news program. In February 2017, he hosted the third season of ‘Crimes that Shook Australia’ on Foxtel’s crime and investigation channel.

Matt Doran Adele Interview

On November 4, 2021, Matt had been flown to London for an exclusive interview with British musician Adele but he confessed to Adele that he hadn’t listened to her album, 30, despite having received a copy of the record in advance. Sony blocked Channel 7 from using the interview footage. This forced the network to piece together footage of artists covering Adele for the One Night Only special aired on Sunday.

Matt later said in an interview with The Australian he said, “When I sat down to interview Adele, I was totally unaware that I’d been emailed a preview of her unreleased album.

I have since discovered it was sent to me as an ‘e card’ link, which I somehow missed upon landing in London. It was an oversight but NOT a deliberate snub. This is the most important email I have ever missed.”

According to The Daily Telegraph, during the 20-minute interview, Matt reportedly didn’t ask any questions about Adele’s new album. According to some sources they allege that Adele stormed out of the interview but Matt clarified that she actually didn’t storm out and the interview was extended by 9 minutes.

“Adele didn’t storm out. In fact, it was the polar opposite. What was meant to be 20 minutes was extended to 29 minutes. The majority of the chat was about the album. I told her: ‘I’ve only had the privilege of hearing ‘Easy on Me’, but not the other tracks ‘.

As part of a long discussion about the new album, I remark that it would be reductive to say it’s about heartbreak and divorce; instead, it’s about empowerment and hope.