Richard Quest
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Richard Austin Quest (born 9 March 1962 in Liverpool) is a British news reporter based in London on the Cable News Network edition CNN International.
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[edit] Education and early career
Quest studied Law at the University of Leeds, taking his degree in 1985, and was called to the Bar. He had already gained broadcast experience when he spent the 1983–84 academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. As news director for campus radio station WRVU, he built the reporting staff from scratch.
[edit] BBC career
Quest then became a Trainee Journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining their financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become their North America business correspondent.
Quest later worked for the BBC from the USA as part of their then fledgling BBC News 24 channel. He was their business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world stock market in a regular segment entitled World Business Report usually aired between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. (GMT), a programme that he presented alongside Paddy O'Connell. He was also an occasional presenter on the BBC's early morning Business Breakfast programme.
[edit] CNN career
Quest joined CNN in 2001 for the launch of Business International. Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, amongst others an analysis of the U.S. elections as American Quest and the start of the circulation of Euro banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002. He has also headed up CNN’s coverage of several events involving the British Royal Family.
In addition to anchoring Business International from London, Quest hosts two monthly programs on CNN International called Business Traveller and Quest. Quest formerly anchored the show CNN Today which is geared towards morning audiences in Europe. Max Foster took his place on CNN Today.
Quest turned down a job offer from the English-language Al Jazeera channel, on the basis that being Jewish and gay he might not be suitable.[1] [2]
In other programs, Quest poked fun at his "talents" by recording a pop song, walking a catwalk, dancing the cha-cha for the first time in his life, in front of an audience of 10,000 and sprinting 100 meters.
On Tuesday 8 May 2007, Quest's flamboyant, exaggerated British delivery of his report on the Queen’s visit to the USA was the subject of parody on The Daily Show in a segment where Jon Stewart tortures English correspondent John Oliver by playing segments of Quest's report.[3]
Quest visited Bangalore, India, in 2004 to participate in the Art of Living function held by Sri Sri Ravishankarji.
Quest was also featured on Access Hollywood 3 September 2007. Quest's twin sister, Caroline is Managing Director of Innovation and Enterprise, Queen Mary, University of London.
[edit] Arrest
On 18 April 2008, Quest was arrested along with a companion at 3:40am in Central Park, New York City, and charged with "loitering and criminal possession of a controlled substance;" Crystal Meth.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Look east. Guardian Unlimited (2006-11-13). Retrieved on 2008-01-03.
- ^ Philip Messing (2008-04-20). CNN's Quest a Very Knotty Boy. New York Post. Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
- ^ Royal Watcher on Daily Show. Comedy Central (2007-05-08). Retrieved on 2008-01-03.
- ^ Anemona Hartocollis (2008-04-19). CNN Reporter Faces Drug Charge. New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
