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Hugh Riminton
Hugh Riminton is National Political Editor and Canberra Bureau Chief for Network Ten.
Hugh is an award-winning journalist who has reported from dozens of countries over the last 20 years. He is regularly seen on the Ten News and The Project breaking the latest political stories. Last year he received three awards for his work on the Defence Skype scandal story, including a Walkley, UN Peace Award and Australian Human Rights Commission Award.
Before joining TEN in 2009, Hugh spent five years with CNN, anchoring the flagship breaking news show CNN TODAY while also reporting from conflict zones as diverse as Iraq, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and the Korean Peninsula. He has also reported extensively on the rise of China, the global economic crisis and the shifting political and human realities of East and South-East Asia. One of his investigations in the Philippines led to the abandonment of a plan to create a legalised trade in human organs.
Previously, he was a news presenter and reporter with the Nine Network, hosting "Nightline" and leading the network's coverage of the Port Arthur massacre, the Thredbo disaster and the Tampa affair among others. He has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister since Gough Whitlam.
He was a London-based correspondent in the 1990s, reporting on the end of apartheid in South Africa, the collapse of Somalia, the Rwandan genocide and conflict in the Middle East, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and Russia.
Riminton has won Australia's top journalism awards, the Walkley (twice) and the Logie, as well as prestigious citations from New York's Columbia University (the Dupont Award) and the Asian TV Awards. He has won honours for international reportage from Iraq, Sri Lanka, PNG, French Polynesia, Fiji, Kosovo and Sudan.
He holds a Masters degree from Macquarie University.
Hugh is married with four children.
Follow Hugh on Twitter: http://twitter.com/hughriminton
