Macdonald Biography
Hamish Macdonald is a TV journalist and news presenter from Australia. As of 2023, he is a host on Network 10’s The Project and ABC Radio National’s RN Breakfast.
MacDonald attended Scots College in Sydney.
Macdonald’s Age
Hamish is 42 years old as of 18 May 2023. He was born on 18 May 1981 in Sydney, Australia.
Hamish’s Family
Macdonald comes from a family of journalists. His older brother Rory is an ABC Radio Sydney producer and reporter, while his older sister Kari Keenan is a 2UE producer.
Hamish’s Partner
Macdonald came out as gay in 2019 and is now in a relationship with partner Jacob Fitzroy. In May 2023, he married.
Macdonald’s Network 10
Hamish announced his departure from Network Ten in September 2013. Rumours circulated that the network was underwhelmed with MacDonald’s The Truth Is series, and MacDonald was disappointed that Ten had not showed more support for his work.
In 2017, Macdonald returned to Network Ten, hosting The Sunday Project on a regular basis before being named permanent presenter in January 2018. He held the post until December 2019, when he took over as host of ABC’s Q&A.
Macdonald hosted Network 10’s coverage of the 2019 Australian Federal Election in May 2019. In July 2021, it was reported that Macdonald would return to Network 10 as the Friday night and Sunday night host of The Project, replacing Peter van Onselen, beginning on August 22.
Macdonald ABC TV
On 6 January 2014, Macdonald joined the US broadcasting company ABC in a senior job as a foreign relations reporter. In spite of being contracted to Arrange Ten in Australia until Walk 2014, MacDonald acquired an early delivery from Ten which upheld his new arrangement. He was at first situated in New York City, yet moved to London later in 2014. His ABC contract allegedly permitted him to acknowledge restricted external work with different associations in specific conditions.
Macdonald facilitated Q+A on Australia’s ABC television from February 2020, supplanting Tony Jones as host of the board program, until his last debut in June 2021. Macdonald was in charge of the show as it moved from Monday night to Thursday. With Macdonald in charge, viewership dove from 411,000 in mid-2020 to 280,000 a year after the fact. By April 2021, the numbers had plunged much further, with only 224,000 metro watchers tuning in. Macdonald left the job the following year and a half, expressing that he was eager to be “moving into another open door” and anticipated working with the ABC later on.
The maltreatment Macdonald got on Twitter while facilitating Q+A, which provoked him to deactivate his record in January 2021, added to his choice to leave the program. Essentially, one more ABC moderator, Lisa Millar, additionally chose to stop the web-based entertainment website in September 2021 because of the maltreatment she was likewise getting while at the same time facilitating News Breakfast. Both Macdonald and Millar’s encounters provoked a public conversation about the elevated degree of individual maltreatment and harassing Australian writers face on Twitter, and how the stage can more readily deal with the issue.
Hamish Macdonald Career
After procuring a news-casting degree from Charles Sturt College in 2002, Macdonald started a short stretch as a journalist covering governmental issues in Canberra with provincial telecaster WIN TV. He moved to the Unified Realm, where he announced for Channel 4 and ITV.
In the UK’s Channel 4 Information, Macdonald fabricated a profession as a news maker and journalist. He covered significant stories including the Asian torrent and the London bombings. He revealed live for Channel 4 and ITV News. He likewise revealed as an onlooker for Australian Organizations Nine, Seven, and ABC. In mid 2006, Macdonald functioned as a maker for Al Jazeera English’s provincial central command in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Al Jazeera English is the English-language sister channel of the Arabic organization Al Jazeera. In the mid year of 2006, he was recruited as a news moderator at the Kuala Lumpur department of Al Jazeera English.
Macdonald won the “Youthful Columnist of the Year” grant at the Illustrious TV Society grants in London, on 20 February 2008. Hamish later moved to Al Jazeera’s London authority, during which time he likewise went about as the UK reporter for the Australian breakfast program Dawn. He left Al Jazeera English in June 2010.