Sports journalist Rebecca Wilson dead

Oke News-Award-winning sports journalist Rebecca Wilson has died in Sydney from breast cancer, aged 54.
She passed away at the family home in the early hours of Friday after a long battle with the disease, her husband, former News Ltd chief executive John Hartigan, and sons Tom and Will said in a joint statement.

Rebecca Wilson

Wilson was an award-winning sports reporter for The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers, and was also a regular panellist on SportsNight with James Bracey on Sky News.

She also had a stint on radio as co-host on the Vega 95.3 breakfast show with Tony Squires and Mikey Robins.

She came from a media family, as the daughter of former News Ltd foreign correspondent Bruce Wilson and the sister of sports reporter Jim Wilson.


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