Mark Colvin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Colvin
Occupation	Australian journalist
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1952(1952-03-13)
Age	72
Date Of Death	May 11, 2017, Prince Of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Mark Colvin Biography

Mark Colvin is one of the most popular and richest Australian journalist who was born on March 13, 1952 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Mark Colvin (13 March 1952 – 11 May 2017) was an Australian journalist and radio and television broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and worked on most of the flagship current affairs programs. Notably, based in Sydney, he was the presenter of PM— the radio current affairs program on the ABC Radio network — from 1997 to 2017.

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 until 1978. With strong foreign language skills in French, Italian and Spanish, he was posted to the Canberra bureau and was 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.

Mark Colvin Net Worth

Mark Colvin is one of the richest Australian journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Colvin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The Colvin family had a long history of military and administrative service to Australia, and previously to the British Empire. Colvin’s father, John Horace Ragnar Colvin, was a Cold War diplomat, and the grandson of Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin. He is the great-grandson of the India Office mandarin Clement Sneyd Colvin, whose father was John Russell Colvin. John Russell, son of an East Indies trader, ended up lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces of British India during the mutiny of 1857, had ten children and founded a dynasty of Empire-builders. Through this line, Mark Colvin’s extended family includes Walter Mytton, Auckland Colvin, also lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh; the landscape architect Brenda Colvin (1897–1981), and Sidney Colvin, a critic, curator, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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In 1994, Colvin was deployed by the 7.30 Report to Africa to cover the unfolding tragedy in Rwanda. Travelling via Zaire, he witnessed an extensive human tragedy, in which about a million refugees were living in camps with poor sanitation and hygiene, with cholera and dysentery commonplace. Colvin was diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis, a rare inflammation of blood vessels, which nearly killed him. After several months in hospital, during his convalescence he became aware of a side effect of the treatment—his hip joints collapsed and both hips had to be replaced. He spent the next 18 months in Europe.

Facts & Trivia

Fabienne Ranked on the list of most popular Australian journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mark Colvin celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.

During 2010, Colvin worked to raise the profile of organ donation through interviews with a number of media agencies including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Drum, The 7.30 Report, and Life Matters.