Hugh Riminton
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Hugh Riminton (born in Sri Lanka 1961) is 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 dominant Australian Television Network, the Nine Network and became its London-based correspondent in 1991.
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.
From 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.
