Michael Rowland Biography
Michael Rowland is a television news presenter and journalist from Australia who presently works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He previously worked in Washington as an American affairs journalist and as a financial, economic, and political reporter for several Australian news outlets. Rowland has edited and written various books and articles.
Michael Rowland Age
he is 55 years old as of 8 July 2023. He was born on 8 July 1968 in Victoria, Australia.
Michael Rowland Wife
Rowland has a wife named Nicola Webber. Rowland also has two children and has made it clear on his social media channels that he is very family-oriented.
Michael Rowland Net Worth
His estimated net worth stands at an impressive $5 Million.
Michael Rowland ABC News Breakfast
Rowland, an ABC News Breakfast presenter, began his career in 2010 with the debut of ABC News 24. The show relocated from ABC2 to ABC1 in 2011, featuring new parts such as “The Party Line” and focused on local and regional concerns in Australia. Rowland was a live correspondent in 2019 covering wildfires in New South Wales, interviewing firefighters and people.
Stuart Robert, Dan Tehan, Karen Andrews, and Josh Frydenberg are among the Australian ministers he has interviewed. Rowland has also interviewed every Australian Prime Minister in the last three decades, including Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison. Rowland has interviewed a wide spectrum of prominent Australian ministers, as well as individual interviews with other Australian ministers.
Michael Rowland Lateline
Rowland worked with Lateline on a questionnaire and as an economics and business correspondent for ABC from late 2004 to 2005. During his stay there, he edited various articles and spoke on the show multiple times to provide insight into Australia’s financial predicament.
Michael Rowland Career
Rowland began his career as a news journalist in the ABC’s Parliament House office in Canberra in the 1990s. He later worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, covering politics in New South Wales and Victoria. In 1988, he became a NSW state political reporter, and in 1991, he became a financial reporter. While covering the 1996 federal election, Rowland met his future News Breakfast co-host Lisa Millar.
He formerly worked as a North America correspondent, covering events such as Barack Obama’s election, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the Virginia Tech shooting, and David Hicks’ escape from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Rowland previously served as Lateline’s finance correspondent and reported on business and economics for other ABC television and radio venues. He took over as co-host of News Breakfast in June 2010, replacing Joe O’Brien.
Rowland’s extended role as senior network presenter for ABC’s morning news breakfast section was announced in June 2019. As a temporary American correspondent in November 2020, he covered the 2020 United States presidential election. HarperCollins published Black Summer: Stories of Loss, Courage, and Community from the 2019-2020 Bushfires, edited by Rowland, in January 2021, with proceeds benefiting the Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.
