Tony Jones Biography
Tony Jones is a television news and political journalist from Australia, as well as a radio and television presenter and writer. Jones began her career as a radio current affairs cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), working on the AM, PM, and The World Today programs.
Tony Jones Age
He was born Anthony William Jones on 13 November 1955 in Australia. Tony is 67 years old as of November 2023.
Tony Jones Education
Jones attended Newington College from 1970 to 1974 and the University of Sydney as a resident of St Paul’s College from 1975 to 1977, where he studied English and subsequently anthropology.
Tony Jones Married- Wife
Jones is married to Sarah Ferguson, another ABC journalist since 1993. When Jones hired Ferguson as a researcher while he was ABC’s UK correspondent, they met in Paris and have two kids. Jones has another child from a previous marriage.
Tony Jones ABC News-Career
Jones began her career as a radio current affairs cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), working on the AM, PM, and The World Today programs. He began working as a reporter for Four Corners in 1985. He appeared on SBS’s Dateline program in 1986. In 1987, he returned to the ABC to report for Four Corners. Jones moved to London as the ABC’s current affairs correspondent in 1990. He covered the fall of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, the Gulf fight, the fight in the former Yugoslavia, the Mujahadin’s takeover of Kabul, and the end of apartheid. In 1993, he returned to Australia as executive producer of Foreign Correspondent. He was ABC’s Washington correspondent from 1994 to 1996.
Jones was the host of ABC TV’s Lateline News and current affairs show from 1999 to 2002. He hosted the show on Wednesday and Thursday nights beginning in 2011, as well as ABC’s Q&A political panel debate show. Jones is one of Australia’s most well-known journalists, having won four of the country’s most prestigious journalistic honors, the Walkleys. In 2005, Crikey named him “Outstanding Media Practitioner of the Year” for his “ferocious intelligence, polite calmness, [being a] dogged interrogator, deep political instincts, juggling the running agenda, [and] having] a great sense of context.” Crikey attributed much of Lateline’s success to Jones, saying, “Lateline without Jones is a perfectly adequate late-night news review; with Jones, it is a world-class piece of television.”
Former Taliban supporter David Hicks asked former Prime Minister John Howard a hostile question on Jones’ Q&A program in 2010. Jones apologized to Howard on the same show after a guy hurled his shoes at him in protest of the Iraq War. On 7 November 2019, ABC announced that Hamish McDonald would join ABC as a senior presenter, taking over for Jones at Q&A in 2020, as well as hosting ABC Radio National’s Breakfast and doing current affairs stories for Foreign Correspondent. Jones delivered his final Q&A broadcast on December 9, 2019. Jones collaborated with his wife, Sarah Ferguson, in the production of the ABC documentary series Revelation in 2019, writing all three episodes.
Tony Jones’s Net Worth
Jones has an estimated net worth of 6 million dollars.