Lee Jeloscek


Lee Jeloscek is an Australian journalist.
Jeloscek is a former reporter for Seven News in Sydney and avid Port Adelaide Football Club supporter.

Career

Jeloscek has been a reporter with Seven News since 2003. He worked in both Adelaide and London, before becoming a court reporter for Seven News in Sydney. His career began in 1999, working at The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide. He maintained his position there for nearly five years.
As part of a team of four Seven journalists, Jeloscek won the prestigious Walkley Award for Television News Reporting, for a story on NSW Government support of ethanol. In 2014, he was nominated for a Kennedy Award in the category of outstanding political reporting.
While In 2016, he became the first Sydney journalist to do a live cross from inside a bus.

Personal life

Jeloscek grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He married Sally Cummine on 4 October 2015 in Killcare, New South Wales. They met in 2010 at NSW Parliament House.

Controversies

On 19 May 2011, Jeloscek was hung up on during a phone interview with popular shock jock Ray Hadley on Sydney radio station 2GB. Hadley took offence that Jeloscek wanted to correct something he asserted was suggested on-air before the interview began, and Hadley cut off Jeloscek mid-sentence telling his listeners:
Chief of staff to then Finance Minister Greg Pearce, Jo McCafferty, was involved in an altercation with Jeloscek at a drinks function in which a "dishevelled" McCafferty called Jeloscek a "bottom feeder". The incident reportedly related to a recent Seven News story criticising Greg Pearce.