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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Austin worked at ITN for thirty years, where he presented the News at Ten and the Evening News, often on location from around the world, including the Antarctic, Iraq, Libya, Haiti, Nepal and Mogadishu. He has twice been named the RTS Presenter of the Year, won five BAFTA awards, an International Emmy for his reporting on the devastating floods in Mozambique and a Golden Nymph for his coverage of the war in Kosovo. He is now a presenter for Sky News.
PICTURE SECTION
Terrible haircut, great phone, awful pose. A publicity picture circa 1988, aged 29.
Covering the Open Golf for ITN in 1990. Graham Phillips, cameraman, and Peter Staunton, producer, in the driving seat.
Rwanda, 1994, the most horrific story I have covered.
Reporting the Mandela inauguration, May 1994.
One of the great moments. A post-interview team picture in 1994 with President Nelson Mandela, cameraman Andy Rex, soundman Gugu Radebe and producer James Britten.
Mandela would often smile and always looked you in the eye when talking to you. He also knew the importance of the message and the media.
Mozambique floods, March 2000. Helping a winchman lift flood victims into a South African Defence Force Chinook helicopter.
A proud moment. Andy Rex and I pick up an Emmy in New York for our Mozambique floods coverage.
May 2000, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when British forces arrived to save the capital from attack.
Presenting the ITV Evening News from Kuwait just days before the start of the Iraq War, 17 March 2003. Mike Inglis is the cameraman.
Writing scripts for the ITV Evening News in a disused house in the Iraqi desert, 25 March 2003.
Our studio in the desert during the Iraq war, 26 March 2003.
Our convoy comes to a halt on a mined road en route to Basra, Iraq, 6 April 2003. Our mobile satellite dish can be seen second from the back. In the distance sabotaged oil facilities burn.
Inside Iraq, 8 April 2003. Preparing for another live broadcast.
My friend and colleague Terry Lloyd is seen making his last televised news report from the Iraqi border on 21 March 2003. A day later he was killed.
In Basra, Iraq, 10 April 2003. A great team for a tough assignment. Left to right: Nick Edwards, me, Mike Inglis, Alan Bugby, Ted Denton, Derl McCrudden and Steve Gore-Smith.
Antarctica, January 2007. Presenting the ITV Evening News from one of the most remote locations on earth!
Antarctica, January 2007. Crevasse training before we could go anywhere.
And with cameraman Eugene Campbell… checking his focus!
With ITN Editor Deborah Turness in the ITN studio in London, 2007.
The ITV Evening News studio with Mary Nightingale, 2009. A virtual studio without the computer graphics.
Hurricane Sandy in America, 2012. Preparing to do an interview with US correspondent Robert Moore.
In the News at Ten studio with Julie Etchingham, 2016.
In the crowds on The Mall for the Diamond Jubilee, 2012. A year earlier, similar reporting duties for the royal wedding ended in farce. Mobbed by scouts!
Meeting the Queen at a journalists’ charity reception in 2014. Mary Nightingale and Sophie Raworth also in the greeting party.
In Rwanda, twenty years after the genocide, with Immaculate Mukanyaraya, who hid from the slaughter in the trees below.
In a so-called Reconciliation Village in Rwanda, twenty years on. The Hutu militiaman on the left lives next door to the woman (centre) whose family he butchered. An extraordinary experiment in reconciliation.
My two loves: cricket…
…and drumming. Here playing the O2 Arena in London during the ‘Newsroom’s Got Talent’ charity competition in September 2010. Who’d have thought it?
Royal Television Society Presenter of the Year, 2015.
Great fun… A cameo appearance – one of many – on ‘Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’, 2015.
With my daughter, Maddy. A photo for the promotion of our documentary on anorexia.
Love this picture. Reporting live for Sky News from the roof of the Washington bureau in 2018.
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