Ascend HQ changed the description of the group Kezia Dawn from “” to “Kezia Dawn is a well known news, finance and sports reporter, award-winning journalist, lifestyle presenter and lover of all things motorsport!
Before she began gracing the screens of Channel Nine in 2017, Kezia chased her heart around racetracks. At just 18-years-old she was involved with a local Porsche racing group which soon led to a heavy involvement in the motorsport industry.
Kezia travelled nationally and internationally as a promotional model, a regular on the Supercars grid, whilst studying her bachelor of Journalism. She contributed to V8 Action Illustrated as a writer, conducting interviews with talent and writing feature pieces on the Supercars championship.
In her early days on camera, Kezia interviewed professional snowboarder Travis Rice for Red Bull TV and shot a feature piece on the Red Bull Holden Racing team in Australia. She had her first taste of live TV as a pit reporter for Motorsport.tv’s Hi-Tec Oils drift series in 2016 and presented a series of Facebook video’s called “Cars of Bendix”.
As Kezia’s passion for storytelling grew, so did her hunger to work in the television industry. With a year left on her degree, Kezia committed every spare moment to interning with Nine News and NBN News in Newcastle.
In October 2017, Kezia was hired as a full-time reporter for Channel Nine in Darwin as part of the Nine News Regional Queensland launch. Working at Nine News Darwin, her passion for sport and reporting combined. Kezia took over the sports break in the Darwin 6pm News bulletin.
Kezia covered David Warner and Cameron Bancroft playing in Darwin during their sandpaper gate bans. She worked hard to ensure she stayed across all local sports and events with a special focus on the NTFL league including the de-registration of Pierce Liddle and Ernie Dingo’s nephew, Keegan.
In 2019, Kezia moved to Perth with Channel Nine to pursue her dream as sports reporter at a metro level. Here she contributes to TODAY Perth, Nine News at 4pm and the nightly 6pm bulletin, as well as filing for WA Today.
At the 2019 NT Media Awards, Kezia was twice nominated for Best Sports Journalism and won the award for her investigative pieces on the Tiwi Bombers football club. The Bombers were the first all-Indigenous team to play in a recognised football league and the judges highlighted Kezia’s knowledge of the players, teams, the league and most importantly the towns affiliated with them, as authentic and trustworthy.
During the pandemic, Kezia realised her passions lied beyond sport too, at the core of her career was a desire to tell stories that impacted people. While most of the world shut down, Kezia moved to the Whitsundays in North Queensland with Channel Seven, telling stories that impacted local communities, as well as state politics, juggling a pandemic and an upcoming election.
Kezia moved to Sydney as the world began to re-open, spending more than a year executive producing news for the Sunrise breakfast show on Channel Seven, before moving to David Koch’s business start-up, ausbiz tv in 2022. Here she covered everything from the first major central bank rate rises around the world, to company reporting, and local economics.
But, it was a balancing act. Her commitments to motorsport also began to rise, and opportunities at rival networks emerged. Kezia began hosting events like the Formula One’s AusGP TV in Melbourne, and the Finke Desert Race in Central Australia. Kezia made the decision to become a freelance reporter with Paramount’s 10 News First later that year, and she hasn’t looked back.
With a desire to keep pushing for more, Kezia is now a freelance reporter with the network, whilst travelling the world to racetracks as her Motorsport career takes off. Now endearingly referred to as “the international Woman of Mystery”, Kezia embraces every opportunity to cover live events, share her journey and if she’s not getting behind the wheel of a race car herself, she’s sure as hell asking all the tough questions of the drivers and teams that are.” 11 months ago