Tony Jones Net Worth 2022, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, TV Shows

Tony Jones net worth

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Introduction

Tony Jones is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter and writer.

Early life

NameTony Jones
Net Worth$5 million
OccupationJournalist, Presenter, Writer
Height1.81m
Age66 years
Tony Jones net worth 2022

Anthony William Jones was born on November 13, 1955 (age 66 years) in Sydney, Australia. Jones attended Newington College from 1970 to 1974 and the University of Sydney as a resident of St Paul’s College, where he studied English and, later, anthropology from 1975 to 1977.

Career

Tony Jones started working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a radio current affairs cadet working on the AM, PM and The World Today programs. In 1985, he joined the Four Corners program as a reporter. In 1986, he went to the Dateline program on SBS. He returned to the ABC in 1987, reporting for Four Corners.

Jones went to London as the ABC’s current affairs correspondent in 1990. He covered the collapse of the USSR in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the fall of Kabul to the Mujahadin and the collapse of apartheid. He returned to Australia in 1993 as executive producer of the Foreign Correspondent program.

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He was the ABC’s correspondent in Washington, D.C. from 1994 to 1996, before returning to Foreign Correspondent in 1997. He also covered the war crimes in Bosnia. In mid-1998 he returned to Four Corners. Tony Jones hosted ABC TV’s Lateline news and current affairs program from 1999. From 2011, he hosted the show on Wednesday and Thursday nights and also hosted the ABC’s Q&A political panel discussion show.

Tony Jones is one of Australia’s most well-known journalists, winning awards including four of Australia’s leading journalism awards, the Walkleys. Crikey awarded him “Outstanding Media Practitioner of the Year” in 2005 for “ferocious intelligence, polite calmness, being a dogged interrogator, deep political instincts, juggling the running agenda, and having a great sense of context.” Crikey also put much of the success of Lateline to Jones, stating, “Lateline without Jones is a perfectly adequate late-night news review; with Jones, it is a world-class piece of television.”

Jones and Lateline embarked on a series of stories in 2006 that provided the catalyst for the Northern Territory Intervention. He has highlighted these stories as being the ones he is most proud of. On the Q&A program, Jones regularly hosted national figures from politics, culture and the arts to discuss issues on the national agenda and face questions from a selected audience.

He hosted the major party leaders during the 2010 Australian federal election. In 2010 on the Q&A program with Jones as host, former Taliban supporter David Hicks submitted an antagonistic question to former Prime Minister John Howard. In the same program, Jones apologized to Howard after a man threw his shoes at him in protest against the Iraq War.

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On 7 November 2019, the ABC announced that Hamish McDonald would be joining the ABC as a senior presenter, replacing Jones at Q&A from 2020 while also presenting ABC Radio National’s Breakfast and doing current affairs stories for Foreign Correspondent.

Jones hosted his last episode of Q&A on 9 December 2019. In 2019, Tony Jones joined his Sarah Ferguson, on the production of the ABC documentary series Revelation to write all three episodes.

Wife

Tony Jones is married to Sarah Ferguson, they had their wedding in 1993. His wife is a fellow ABC journalist. Tony first met his wife in Paris when he engaged Ferguson as a researcher while he was the ABC’s UK correspondent. They married in 1993 and have two children. Jones has another child from a previous relationship.

Tony Jones net worth

How much is Tony Jones worth? Tony Jones net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his career as a journalist, reporter and television presenter. Jones successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. He is one of the richest and influential journalists in Australia.