Career
Tynan is a news presenter on Sky News Australia, where she has been since 2005. Prior to joining Sky News Australia she worked at American Broadcasting Company Television, where she reported and presented for American Broadcasting Company News and the 7:30 Report. She was also the anchorwoman for the American Broadcasting Company"s International satellite television service, the Australia Network (formerly known as American Broadcasting Company Asia Pacific).
Tynan was a reporter for American Broadcasting Company News in Darwin and was a relief presenter for Australia Television News.
She reported for Today Tonight on the Seven Network, then worked as a producer for APTN and Access Hollywood in London. She has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, majoring in broadcast journalism.
During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. Jacinta also studied acting at the Vancouver Film School in Canada and has written and starred in two short films, one of which was selected as a Tropfest semi-finalist in 2001. She also acted in The Vagina Monologues at Sydney"s Ensemble Theatre and starred in Closer for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company.
Tynan is one of six children.
She is the grand-niece of John O"Grady (Nino Culotta) who wrote the best-selling They"re a Weird Mob. Tynan is ambassador and a mentor for the Sister2Sister teenage mentor program with the Life Changing Experiences Foundation.
