Hamish Macdonald (broadcaster)

Hamish Macdonald
Born	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Broadcast journalist ABC News international affairs correspondent

Hamish Macdonald is an Australian broadcast journalist and news presenter. Macdonald has previously worked at networks including Channel 4, ITV, Al Jazeera English and Network Ten.

Macdonald announced he would be leaving his positions as Ten Late News, The Truth Is and a foreign correspondent for Network Ten in Australia as of 26 September 2013.

On 6 January 2014, Macdonald joined the ABC Television Network in the US in a senior role as an international affairs correspondent for the network.

Upon earning a journalism degree from Charles Sturt University in 2002, Macdonald began a short stint as a reporter covering politics in Canberra with regional broadcaster WIN. He moved to the United Kingdom, where he reported for Channel 4 and ITV.

In the UK's Channel 4 News, Macdonald built a career as a news producer and reporter. He covered major stories including the Asian tsunami and the London bombings. He reported live for Channel 4 and ITV news. He also reported as an eyewitness for Australian Networks Nine, Seven, and ABC.

In early 2006, Hamish worked as a producer for Al Jazeera English's regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the summer of 2006, he was hired as a news presenter at the Kuala Lumpur bureau of Al Jazeera English, the English-language sister channel of the Arabic network Al Jazeera.

Macdonald won the "Young Journalist of the Year" award at the Royal Television Society awards in London, on 20 February 2008.

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