Jana Bohumila Wendt (/ˈjɑːnɑː vɛnt/ YAH-nah VENT; born 9 May 1956) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer.
[1] Wendt attended Presentation College, Windsor[2] before graduating at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (French, Honours) in 1979.
[3][4] Starting as a researcher for the ABC,[5] Wendt's television career began as a journalist for ATV-10 evening news, before sharing presenting duties with David Johnston.
Leaks to the print media, reportedly from high levels within Nine and described by journalists as "ham-fisted", revealed that the network wanted to replace Wendt with Ellen Fanning.
The absence of Wendt on the Sunday program's relaunch on 3 September 2006 was met with an unprecedented number of complaints that flooded the Nine Network's switchboard.