Hugh Riminton

Hugh Riminton (born 1961 in Sri Lanka) is a journalist, foreign correspondent and television news presenter.

Raised in New Zealand, 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. In 1989, he joined the Australian Nine Network. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991 and during his time in London, had his first daughter Caitlin. While at Nine, Hugh reported for every "National Nine News" and current affairs program.

Over the next decade he won several honours for his international reporting work, including a Logie Award (1996) for coverage of Tahiti's independence movement and a Walkley Award his coverage of the 2000 Fiji coup. He was also nominated for Walkley Awards for reportage in Papua New Guinea (1998), Kosovo (1999), Southern Sudan (1999) and Iraq (2003).

In 2001, he was appointed full-time presenter of Channel Nine's national evening news program Nightline, where he remained until joining CNN in December 2004. From Sri Lanka, he reported and presented during CNN's Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. In Hong Kong he had his second daughter Coco.

Since January 2005, he has co-anchored "CNN Today" with Kristie Lu Stout out of Hong Kong.

He holds a Masters degree on peacekeeping policy from Macquarie University.

External links

* [http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/riminton.hugh.html Hugh Riminton profile] at CNN.com