Rare disorder claims life of veteran reporter

FORMER television reporter and Walkley Award-winning journalist Jill Singer has died from a rare blood disorder.

Ms Singer, 60, was a past host of the Seven Network’s current affairs program Today Tonight and was a lecturer at the School of Media and Communication at RMIT in Melbourne. She won a Walkley Award in 1992 for Best Investigative Television Journalist.

Family member Pam Street posted a tribute to Ms Singer on her Facebook page yesterday morning.

“We have just lost my cousin Jill Singer, she has passed away. She was a sweet girl and only 60 years of age,” she wrote. “Words always fail us at times like this, we know it is hard to say anything really.’’