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Tears, trauma and telexes: Hugh Riminton signs off after a lifetime in the know
For veteran newsman Hugh Riminton, turning up at Channel Ten for his last day of daily reporting on Friday, the emotions were strong – and not just for the creeping finality of it. It was reflecting on the sheer amount of time between his professional curtain rising and now falling – and the change he has seen in a career spanning no fewer than six decades.
No, it was not quite that when he started the curtain cords were steam-driven, while now they’re AI-programmed, but it’s close.
“The first major news story I covered,” he says, “was the Mount Erebus plane disaster in the late ’70s. My radio station in Christchurch sent a telegram, delivered by cable boy, ordering me to come in to work. The newsroom ran on telexes and manual typewriters. As I leave today, everyone, everywhere, is connected, to just about everything happening in the world.”
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Tears, trauma and telexes: Hugh Riminton signs off after a lifetime in the know
For veteran newsman Hugh Riminton, turning up at Channel Ten for his last day of daily reporting on Friday, the emotions were strong – and not just for the creeping finality of it. It was reflecting on the sheer amount of time between his professional curtain rising and now falling – and the change he has seen in a career spanning no fewer than six decades.
No, it was not quite that when he started the curtain cords were steam-driven, while now they’re AI-programmed, but it’s close.
“The first major news story I covered,” he says, “was the Mount Erebus plane disaster in the late ’70s. My radio station in Christchurch sent a telegram, delivered by cable boy, ordering me to come in to work. The newsroom ran on telexes and manual typewriters. As I leave today, everyone, everywhere, is connected, to just about everything happening in the world.”
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