Dominique Schwartz

Dominique Schwartz is an Australian communications specialist and former television journalist and news presenter.

She is best known for her association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked as a foreign correspondent and as anchor of ABC TV's 7pm news in Adelaide.

Career Born in Sydney but growing up in Perth, Schwartz began her media career in 1982 when she secured a cadetship at the ABC after graduating from high school, working in the newsrooms for both ABC Television and ABC Radio. Following a brief period with the Seven Network where she worked on Terry Willesee Tonight, Schwartz relocated to Japan. She worked on the program as a full-time reporter for six years, becoming an occasional contributor after being appointed as the ABC's Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent in 1997. In that role, she continued filing stories for Foreign Correspondent, as well as Lateline and The 7.30 Report. She continued in that role until 2010 when she took up the position as the ABC's New Zealand correspondent in 2010.

Her time at the ABC came to an end in 2020 when she was one of a number of high-profile presenters and reporters whose positions were made redundant.

Since leaving the ABC, Schwartz has worked as the associate director of communications for the Regional Australia Institute, and as the senior associate of communications for Pew Charitable Trusts.

Awards In 1996, Schwartz won the UNESCO gold award at the New York Film Festival for her Foreign Correspondent story about Burkina Faso's quest to ending female genital mutilation. She was recognised in the All Media - Rural Journalism category for her "Death Row Dingoes" story in 2017 and was the co-recipient of the same award for the "Tension on the Tracks" story with Alexandra Blucher in 2018.