21 Facts About George Negus

George Edward Negus AM was an Australian journalist, author, television and radio presenter specialising in international affairs.

George Negus was a pioneer of Australian broadcast journalism, first appearing on the ABC's This Day Tonight and later on 60 Minutes.

George Negus often reported from the frontline of dangerous conflicts and described himself as an "anti-war correspondent" who wanted people to understand the reasons behind why wars were senseless.

George Negus was awarded a Walkley Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism.

George Negus presented 6.30 with George Negus on Network Ten.

George Negus remained a director of his own media consulting company, Negus Media International, until his death in 2024.

George Negus was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 13 March 1942.

George Negus attended Inala State High School and Indooroopilly State High School, located in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly in Queensland.

George Negus was a high school teacher before writing for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.

George Negus served as press secretary for Attorney-General Lionel Murphy during the Whitlam government.

George Negus became most prominent 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.

From 1992 until 1999, George Negus was founding host of the ABC's foreign-themed current affairs Foreign Correspondent.

From 1999 to 2001, George Negus took a professional sabbatical and lived in Italy, writing a book, The World from Italy: Football, Food and Politics.

In 2002, Negus returned to the ABC to facilitate a pre-election panel and audience discussion program "Australia Talks" before commencing 3 years as host of the early evening timeslot George Negus Tonight covering "trends and issues with an Australia-wide team of reporters and producers".

In 2005, George Negus went on to host Dateline on the SBS network.

George Negus wrote several books, including one based on his time in Italy, and co-wrote a six-part series of children's books about Australian wildlife and geography with Kirsty Cockburn, his partner, in the early 1990s.

George Negus's bestselling book The World from Islam, first published in 2003, is an investigation of the Islamic world as seen from Negus's travels in the Middle East.

George Negus lived on a farm near Bellingen, on the New South Wales northern coast, until he was moved into a Sydney nursing home in late 2021 after being diagnosed with dementia.

George Negus's partner, Kirsty Cockburn, was a journalist and a collaborator on many of Negus's projects.

George Negus was a fan of soccer and a former board member of the national governing body Soccer Australia.

George Negus died in Sydney on 15 October 2024, at the age of 82, following a battle with Alzheimer's disease.