Michael Usher

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Michael Usher is a presenter of National Nine News. Usher is currently presenting National Nine News Afternoon Edition and Nightline. Usher was the Nine Network's correspondent on the ground on the day that the world changed. He was in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked in September, 2001, and reported live to Australia as the biggest story of our times unfolded.

Less than two years later, he was in Iraq, travelling north from Kuwait to reach Baghdad the day after the Coalition seized the city. It was, he says, "a frightening yet phenomenal two-month mission."

Usher graduated from high school in Perth in 1987. He went on to study media in 1989 at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and graduated with an Associate Diploma in Media Studies.

Usher's television career began in 1990 at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury, Western Australia, as a final year cadet journalist. He was then posted to Kalgoorlie, before beginning the following year at STW-9, Perth.

In 1993, Usher moved to Sydney and to TCN-9 news. Three years later he was appointed the role of Nine Network Olympics reporter, leading the Network's coverage of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

It's a brief that has taken him to Lausanne to cover the corruption scandal that engulfed the International Olympic Committee and in 1996 he was in Atlanta covering the Olympics when the bomb went off in Centennial Park.

Usher was also in London the August night in 1997 when Princess Diana died.

In 1998, Usher witnessed the debut of swimmers Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett and Michael Klim at the World Swimming Championships in Perth. He's also covered the Commonwealth Games in both Kuala Lumpur and Manchester.

In 2001, Usher moved to the Nine Network US bureau, where he worked for three years as Nine Network US correspondent. Based in Los Angeles, Usher covered stories from the Oscars to the Columbia space shuttle disaster.

Usher returned to Australia to fill in as host of the Today Show, then at the beginning of 2004, together with wife Annalie and young son Thomas, he moved to the UK, to cover the London bureau.

In his role as Europe correspondent Usher reported on the Olympic Games in Athens, the death of Yasser Arafat and the birth of Princess Mary's baby. He also travelled to the Russian town of Beslan and produced harrowing reports on the school hostage crisis.

National Nine News Anchors Across Australia
Gardener - Connolly - Kingston - Usher - Langdon - Paige - Foord - Whiting - Downes - Ferguson - Munro Hitchener - Hall - Kelvin - McGunniss - Marshall - Vinci - Sarac - Uptin - Anicromatis Substitute Anchors: Wiemers - Harris - McLeod - Madigan - Arvier