Mark Colvin
| Mark Colvin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 March 1952 |
| Show | PM |
| Station(s) | Radio National |
| Network | ABC Radio |
| Style | News and current affairs |
| Country | Australia |
| Previous show(s) |
(As presenter:) The World Today; (As reporter): Four Corners; Foreign Correspondent; 7.30 Report; and Lateline |
| Parents |
John Horace Ragnar Colvin and Elizabeth Anne Manifold (Lady Synott) |
| Spouse(s) | 1. Cherry Ripe (dis.) 2. Michele McKenzie |
| Website | www.abc.net.au/pm/about.html |
Mark Colvin is an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Based in Sydney, he has been the presenter of PM since 1997. PM is one of the flagship Australian radio current affairs programs on the ABC Radio network.
Colvin graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English literature and arrived in Australia in 1974. He began employment in January 1975 at the ABC's rock music station Double Jay (2JJ, now known as Triple J) as one of the foundation staff, initially working as a cadet journalist. While at 2JJ, he presented news, conducted interviews and produced current affairs and documentary specials up until 1978. With strong foreign language skills in French, Italian and Spanish, he was posted to the Canberra bureau and appointed a television news producer. A year later, he was one of the first reporters on Nationwide, along with Jenny Brockie, Paul Murphy and Andrew Olle.
At the age of 28 in 1980, Colvin was appointed foreign correspondent in London, and travelled to cover major stories including the American hostage crisis in Tehran and the rise of Solidarity in Poland. During his time covering the Middle East, Colvin was deeply affected by the death of his interpreter, Bahram Dehqani-Tafti, a secular Iranian murdered and dumped outside a Tehran prison. Colvin believed that the mullahs had a dispute with Dehqani-Tafti's father, the Anglican bishop of Iran in exile in London. Colvin returned to Australia in 1983 and initially was reporter on both AM and PM, before agitating for the establishment of a midday news and current affairs radio program. Colvin became the founding presenter of The World Today on ABC radio. The following year, Colvin went to Brussels as Europe correspondent, and covered the events right across the continent as the Cold War began to thaw and the Gorbachev era began the process that would lead to the lifting of the Iron Curtain.
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