Pamela Medlen is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter.
Since September 2020, she has presented ABC News on Monday-Thursday evenings.
Medlen grew up on her family's farm in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, before moving to Perth to study journalism at Curtin University.
[1] After completing her degree Medlen travelled overseas, working in London and moving around Europe for a year and a half.
[1] In 2006, Medlen began working at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; she has been a reporter and producer,[3][4] as well as reading the weekend news bulletins,[1][5] before replacing James McHale in September 2020 as the presenter of the flagship weekday evening news.