Peter Greste

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Greste
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1965(1965-12-01)
Age	59
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Peter Greste Biography

Peter Greste is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 1, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

From 1991 to 1995, Greste was based in London, Bosnia and South Africa, where he worked for Reuters, CNN, WTN and the BBC. In 1995, he was based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was a correspondent for the BBC and Reuters, after which he was based in Belgrade for a year, where he was a correspondent for Reuters. He then returned to London, where he worked for BBC News 24. He was then based in Mexico, then Santiago, as a correspondent for the BBC. He returned to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the start of the war. After Afghanistan, he worked across the Middle East and Latin America. From 2004, he was based in Mombasa, Kenya, then Johannesburg, South Africa, followed by six years in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2011, he won a Peabody Award for a BBC documentary on Somalia. That year, he left the BBC to become a correspondent for Al Jazeera English in Africa, until he returned to Australia in February 2016 to work as a freelance journalist, speaker and press freedom advocate. In February 2018, he took up a position at the University of Queensland as “UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communications”. Along with lawyer Chris Flynn and journalist Peter Wilkinson, Greste founded the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.

Greste was arrested in Cairo with colleagues at the end of December 2013. The interior ministry said the journalists were accused of news reporting which was “damaging to national security”. Greste was imprisoned in Egypt in solitary confinement for a month before any formal charges were made. On 29 January, it emerged that the Egyptian authorities were to charge 20 Al Jazeera journalists, including Greste, of falsifying news and having a negative impact on overseas perceptions of the country. His colleagues, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were also imprisoned; the three men were being held in the same cell in early February 2014. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the authorities in Egypt to “promptly release” the Al Jazeera staff they were holding in custody.

Peter Greste Net Worth

Peter Greste is one of the richest Journalist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Greste 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Greste (Latvian: Pēteris Greste; born 1 December 1965) is an Australian journalist and correspondent, who holds dual citizenship of Australia and Latvia. He has worked as a correspondent for Reuters, CNN and the BBC, predominantly in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

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On 1 February 2015, a month after a retrial of Greste, Fahmy and Mohammad was announced, Greste was deported and flown to Cyprus. His colleagues were released on bail on 12 February 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Paola Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Peter Greste celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

In 2017, Greste’s own book The First Casualty was published by Penguin. It purports to contain a “first-hand account of how the war on journalism has spread from the battlefields of the Middle East to the governments of the West”. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Walkley Book Award.

Top Facts about Peter Greste

1. Peter Greste is an Australian journalist and correspondent.
2. He was imprisoned in Egypt for 400 days.
3. Greste was accused of spreading false news and supporting terrorism.
4. He won the Walkley Award for his coverage of the Egyptian revolution.
5. Greste co-founded the Media Freedom Foundation to support press freedom.
6. He has reported from various countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq.
7. Greste currently works as a professor of journalism at the University of Queensland.
8. He wrote a book about his imprisonment titled “The First Casualty”.
9. Greste advocates for press freedom and human rights globally.
10. He received numerous awards for his journalism work, including Peabody Award and Royal Television Society award.

What did Peter Greste do?

Australian Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste along with his colleagues, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, were imprisoned in Cairo amid false allegations of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Why was Peter Greste imprisoned?

Jailed for journalism Just after Christmas, overnight and out of the blue, Peter and his colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy were arrested – simply for doing their jobs as journalists.

Why was Al Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt?

2013 arrest The Egyptian Interior Ministry confirmed the arrest and said the journalists were accused of reporting false news which was “damaging to national security”. Following their arrest, Greste and his colleagues were imprisoned in Egypt in solitary confinement for a month before any formal charges were made.

Where was Peter Greste held?

Al-Jazeera journalist, Peter Greste, who was freed on Sunday after more than a year in an Egyptian prison , has held his first news conference since arriving back in Australia.

What was Peter Greste charged with?

An Egyptian court sentences three al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison for operating without a license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. The trio were convicted of operating without a press licence and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt in a case that has triggered an international outcry.