Hugh Riminton

Hugh Riminton is an Australian foreign correspondent, journalist and television news presenter. He is^[when?] currently national affairs editor and occasional presenter of 10 News First. He previously co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully until February 2017.

Born in Sri Lanka, where his father managed tea estates, Riminton briefly migrated to the United Kingdom, then to New Zealand when he was five. He began work as a cadet reporter aged 17 in Christchurch, before moving to Australia in 1983 to work for the Macquarie Radio Network in Perth and Melbourne.

Riminton graduated with a master's degree from Macquarie University focused on peacekeeping policy.

Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a Melbourne-based general reporter in 1989. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, notably 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. He has received several honours for his reporting work, including a Logie Award (1996) for coverage of Tahiti's independence movement and a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. He was also a Walkley Awards finalist for reportage in Papua New Guinea (1998), Kosovo (1999), Southern Sudan (1999) and Iraq (2003).

In 2001, he was appointed full-time presenter of the Nine Network's national evening news program Nightline, where he remained until joining CNN in December 2004.^{[citation needed]} From Sri Lanka he reported and presented during CNN's Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. He also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere during this time.^{[citation needed]}

From January 2005 to September 2008, he co-anchored CNN Today with Kristie Lu Stout out of Hong Kong. During this time the program twice won the Asian Television Award for Asia-Pacific's best news program.

Riminton left CNN in 2009 to take up a position as senior political correspondent for Australia's Ten News.^{[citation needed]} He hosted a Sunday morning show, Meet the Press, where he interviewed political leaders. He was also an occasional guest presenter on Network Ten's prime time alternative news program The Project.^{[citation needed]}