Hugh Riminton Biography
Hugh Riminton is an Australian journalist, news anchor, and overseas correspondent. He currently serves as 10 News First’s national affairs editor and occasional broadcaster. Prior to February 2017, he co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully.
Hugh Riminton Age
Riminton is 61 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1961 in Sri Lanka.
Hugh Riminton Height
Riminton stands at a height of 1.71m.
Hugh Riminton Family
When Riminton was five years old, his family immigrated to New Zealand, where his father oversaw tea estates. When he was 17 years old, he started working as a cadet reporter in Christchurch. In 1983, he moved to Australia to work for the Macquarie Radio Network in Perth and Melbourne. With a major in peacekeeping strategy, Rimington received a master’s degree from Macquarie University.
Hugh Riminton Wife
From the 1980s until the 1990s, Riminton was wed to Sue Perry. In 1992, they had a daughter in London. The Australian Democrats’ Natasha Stott Despoja, who served as their leader from 2001 to 2002, dated Riminton up to that point. When Riminton and Stott Despoja were on the same panel for The Project’s coverage of the 2013 midterm elections, it resulted in an odd reunion.
Together with Kumi Taguchi, with whom he lived in Hong Kong from 2004 to 2006, he relocated there in 2004. They welcomed a daughter in November 2005. While working at CNN in early 2007, Riminton met journalist Mary Lloyd who was a single father. The family relocated to Canberra, Australia, in 2009, and their son was born there. 2010 saw the marriage of the pair in Cambodia. In 2011, their daughter was born.
Hugh Riminton Salary
Riminton earns an annual salary of $1 Million.
Hugh Riminton Net Worth
Riminton has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Hugh Riminton Career
In 1989, Rimington began working for the Australian Nine Network as a general correspondent in Melbourne. In 1991, he was appointed as its reporter in London. More than 40 nations, including South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South East Asia, East Timor, China, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, have been the source of Riminton’s reports. He has won numerous awards for his reporting work, including a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2000 Fijian coup d’état and a Logie Award for his coverage of Tahiti’s independence struggle. Additionally, he was a nominee for a Walkley Award for his reporting from Iraq, Kosovo, Southern Sudan, and Papua New Guinea.
He was hired as the full-time host of Nightline, the Nine Network’s national evening news show, in 2001. He held that position until joining CNN in December 2004. He provided reporting and commentary from Sri Lanka for CNN’s Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. During this time, he also made substantial reports from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and other places. He had his second daughter, Coco, in Hong Kong. In June 2009, a son named Jacob was born in Canberra.
He and Kristie Lu Stout co-anchored CNN Today from Hong Kong from January 2005 through September 2008. The program twice took home the Asian Television Award for Asia-Best Pacific’s News Program during that time. In 2009, Rimington left CNN to work as the senior political correspondent for Ten News in Australia. He was the host of the Sunday morning program Meet the Press, where he conducted political leader interviews. He also occasionally appears as a guest host on Network Ten’s The Project, an alternative news program that airs during prime time.
Riminton was named the political editor and bureau chief for Ten News in Canberra in November 2010, and Paul Bongiorno was named the national affairs editor. Along with writer Matt Moran, he earned a second Walkley Award in 2011 for their work in exposing the “Skype Scandal” in the Australian Defense Force, which led to more than a dozen police and governmental investigations. The Australian Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Association both honored the pair that year for their efforts. For the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, they made the shortlist. Riminton anchored the Network Ten current affairs program Revealed in 2013.
Riminton and Sandra Sully were named co-anchors of Ten Eyewitness News in Sydney by Network Ten in February 2014. Up until February 2017, when Sully took over as the only presenter, he co-anchored the bulletin. Riminton started working as a guest presenter for the Brisbane 10 News First bulletin in August 2020, after the network centralized the production of bulletins for every city to Melbourne and Sydney.
He was a founding board member of the nonprofit organization Soldier On and is actively interested in matters relating to the care of Australian Defense veterans. The John Mac Founding was established by Deng Adut, the 2017 NSW Australian of the Year, and he served as its founding chair. Its main function is to provide university scholarships for Australian students who are descendants of refugees. Riminton sits on the board of the Crescent Institute, a think tank with offices in Sydney, as well as the advisory board of Media Diversity Australia. Minefields: A Life in the News Game, Riminton’s autobiography, was released in 2017 by Hachette Australia.
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