Hugh Riminton Biography
Hugh Riminton is a journalist, foreign correspondent, and television news presenter from Australia working as the national affairs editor of 10 News First and an occasional presenter. Until February 2017, he co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully.
How old is Hugh Riminton? – Age
He is 60 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1961 in Sri Lanka.
Hugh Riminton Family – Education
Riminton moved to New Zealand with his father, who managed tea estates when he was five years old. Riminton earned a master’s degree in international relations from Macquarie University, with a major thesis on peacekeeping policy.
Hugh Riminton Marriage – Children
He has been married thrice. From the 1980s to the 1990s, Riminton was married to Sue Perry, with whom he had a daughter in 1992 in London. Riminton was in a relationship with Natasha Stott Despoja, a leader of the Australian Democrats, until 2001. When Riminton and Stott Despoja were both on the same panel for The Project’s coverage of the 2013 federal election, it was an unusual reunion. He moved to Hong Kong with Kumi Taguchi in 2004, and they were married from 2005 to 2006. In November of 2005, their daughter was born.
When Riminton met journalist Mary Lloyd in early 2007 while working at CNN, he was a single father. The family relocated to Canberra, Australia, in 2009, where their son was born. In 2010, the couple married in Cambodia. The family relocated to Canberra, Australia, in 2009, where their son was born. In 2010, the couple married in Cambodia. In 2011, their daughter was born.
Hugh Riminton Net Worth
His wealth records are not revealed making it difficult to calculate his net worth.
Hugh Riminton Career
In 1989, Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a general reporter in Melbourne. In 1991, he was appointed as its London correspondent. Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, including South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South East Asia, East Timor, China, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, as well as the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South East Asia, East Timor, China, the United States, and the Pacific Islands. He has won several awards for his reporting, including a Logie Award for coverage of Tahiti’s independence movement in 1996 and a Walkley Award for coverage of the Fijian coup d’état in 2000.
He was also a finalist for the Walkley Awards for reporting in Papua New Guinea in 1998, Kosovo in1999, Southern Sudan in 1999, and Iraq in 2001. He joined the Nine Network’s national evening news program Nightline as a full-time presenter in 2001, and remained there until joining CNN in December 2004. He reported and presented from Sri Lanka during CNN’s Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which he won. During this time, he also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and other places. Coco, his second daughter, was born in Hong Kong. Jacob, a son, was born in June 2009 in Canberra.
After the network consolidated production of bulletins for all cities to Melbourne and Sydney, Riminton began as an occasional presenter of the Brisbane 10 News First bulletin in August 2020. He is a founding board member of the charity Soldier On and is actively involved in Australian Defence veterans’ welfare issues. He was also the founding chair of the John Mac Foundation, which was founded by Deng Adut, the 2017 NSW Australian of the Year. Its main focus is on providing university scholarships to Australian students who have come to Australia as refugees. Riminton serves on the board of the Crescent Institute, a Sydney-based think tank, and is a member of Media Diversity Australia’s advisory board.
In 2011, he was awarded a second Walkley Award for his role in breaking the “Skype Scandal” in the Australian Defence Force, which resulted in more than a half-dozen police and government inquiries. For their efforts, the United Nations Association and the Australian Human Rights Commission presented them with awards that year. They were nominated for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and were placed on the shortlist. Riminton hosted Network Ten’s current affairs show Revealed in 2013. Riminton was named co-anchor of Ten Eyewitness News in Sydney with Sandra Sully in February 2014. Sully took over as solo presenter in February 2017 after he co-anchored the bulletin.Minefields: A Life in the News Game, Riminton’s autobiography, was published by Hachette Australia in 2017.