George Negus
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Negus in October 2011
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| Born |
George Edward Negus 13 March 1942 Brisbane, Queensland |
| Residence | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Television & Radio presenter Journalist |
| Known for |
60 Minutes (1979 - 1986) Today (1986 - 1990) Dateline (2005 - 2010) The Project (2009 - present) 6:30 with George Negus (2011) |
| Website | negusmedia |
George Edward Negus AM (born 13 March 1942) is an Australian author, journalist and television presenter specialising in international affairs. He most recently presented 6:30 with George Negus on Network Ten. He remains a director of his own media consulting company, Negus Media International.
Negus attended Indooroopilly State High School located in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly in Queensland. He studied arts and journalism at the University of Queensland.
Negus was a high school teacher before writing for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. He served as press secretary for Attorney-General Lionel Murphy during the Whitlam government.
He became most prominent, however, as a reporter for This Day Tonight, a pioneering current affairs show on the ABC which began in 1967 and continued through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Later, he was a correspondent for the Australian 60 Minutes program in from 1979 until 1986 and then co-hosted Today until 1990.
From 1992 until 1999, Negus hosted the ABC's foreign-themed current affairs Foreign Correspondent. After this project he went to live in Italy for 15 months on a professional sabbatical but produced a book entitled "The World From Italy -- Food, Football and Politics" which was published in 2001.
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