George Negus

George Edward Negus (born 13 March 1942 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter who has been hosting the "Dateline" current affairs programme for the SBS network since 2005.

Negus studied arts and journalism at the University of Queensland and was a high school teacher before writing for "The Australian" and "The Australian Financial Review". He became most prominent, however, as a reporter for "This Day Tonight", a pioneering current affairs show on the ABC which began in 1967 and continued through the late 1960s and into the 1970s, and later in the heyday of the Australian "60 Minutes" from 1979 until 1986, and then hosted the "Today Show" until 1990.

Negus hosted the ABC's foreign-themed current affairs "Foreign Correspondent" from 1992 until 1999. After this he went to live in Italy for several years.

In 2004, Negus returned to the ABC and hosted the early evening timeslot show "George Negus Tonight" covering "trends and issues with an Australia-wide team of reporters and producers". After the axing of this show he moved on to host "Dateline" on SBS.

Negus has also written several books, including one based on his time in Italy, and co-wrote a series of children's books with Kirsty Cockburn, his partner, in the early 1990s. His latest, successful book is "The World from Islam", an investigation of the Islamic world.

Negus lives on a farm near Bellingen on the New South Wales northern coast, with his partner, herself a journalist and a collaborator on many of Negus's projects, and their sons Ned and Serge. Negus is a fan of football and a former board member of Soccer Australia>ref> [http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s639923.htm ABC Australia story] ] [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1647336.htm ABC World Today] .]

TV Roles

* "This Day Tonight" (1960s-1970s) - reporter
* "60 Minutes" (1979 - 86) - reporter
* "Today" (1986-1990) - co host
* "Foreign Correspondent" (1992 - 99) - host
* "George Negus Tonight" (2004) - host
* "Dateline" (2005 - present) - host

External links

* [http://www.negusmedia.com.au/about_george.html Biography from official site]
* [http://www.icmi.com.au/speakerfull.phtml?id=260 George Negus's Professional Record - Speaker and Author]
* [http://www.who.com/who/magazine/article/0,19636,7401050307-1030895,00.html "Who Weekly" interview]

References