Hugh Riminton

Hugh Riminton
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Sri Lanka
Education	Master's Degree
Occupation	Journalist & News Presenter Foreign Correspondent
Notable credit(s)	Ten Eyewitness News
Spouse(s)	Sue Perry Kumi Taguchi Mary Lloyd (married 2010)
Children	4

Hugh Riminton (born 1961 in Sri Lanka) is a journalist, foreign correspondent and television news presenter.

Riminton is currently a senior reporter of Ten Eyewitness News. He previously co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully until February 2017.

Hugh Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a Melbourne-based general reporter in 1989. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991.

Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, notably 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. He has received several honours for his reporting work, including a Logie Award (1996) for coverage of Tahiti's independence movement and a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. He was also a Walkley Awards finalist for reportage in Papua New Guinea (1998), Kosovo (1999), Southern Sudan (1999) and Iraq (2003).

In 2001, he was appointed full-time presenter of the Nine Network's national evening news program Nightline, where he remained until joining CNN in December 2004. From Sri Lanka, he reported and presented during CNN's Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. He also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere during this time. In Hong Kong he had his second daughter Coco. A son, Jacob, was born in Canberra in June 2009.

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