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- Michael Usher (born 1970) is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes. Usher previously presented Nightline and was the newsreader on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz. Usher was the Nine Network's correspondent on the ground on the day that the world changed. He was in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked in September, 2001, and reported live to Australia as the biggest story of our times unfolded. Less than two years later, he was in Iraq, travelling north from Kuwait to reach Baghdad the day after the Coalition seized the city. It was, he says, "a frightening yet phenomenal two-month mission. " Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987. He went on to study media in 1989 at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and graduated with an Associate Diploma in Media Studies. Usher's television career began in 1990 at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury, as a final year cadet journalist. He was then posted to Kalgoorlie before beginning the following year at STW-9, Perth. In 1993, Usher moved to Sydney and to TCN-9 news. Three years later he was appointed the role of Nine Network Olympics reporter, leading the Network's coverage of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. It's a brief that has taken him to Lausanne to cover the corruption scandal that engulfed the International Olympic Committee and in 1996 he was in Atlanta covering the Olympics when the bomb went off in Centennial Park. Usher was also in London the August night in 1997 when Princess Diana died. In 1998, Usher witnessed the debut of swimmers Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett and Michael Klim at the World Swimming Championships in Perth. He's also covered the Commonwealth Games in both Kuala Lumpur and Manchester. In 2001, Usher moved to the Nine Network US bureau, where he worked for three years as Nine Network US correspondent. Based in Los Angeles, Usher covered stories from the Oscars to the Columbia space shuttle disaster. Usher returned to Australia to fill in as host of Today, then at the beginning of 2004, together with wife Annalie and young son Thomas, he moved to the UK, to cover the London bureau. In his role as Europe correspondent Usher reported on the Olympic Games in Athens, the death of Yasser Arafat and the birth of Princess Mary's baby. He also travelled to the Russian town of Beslan and produced reports on the school hostage crisis. In 2006, Usher returned to Australia and began presenting Nightline, replacing Ellen Fanning. In 2007 Usher became newsreader for the Sunday program. Following the axing of Nightline in July 2008 and Sunday in August 2008, Usher was appointed presenter of the short-lived Nine News Sunday AM. For the rest of 2008, Usher filled-in on various Nine News bulletins as well as reporting for 60 Minutes, filling in for Tara Brown who was on maternity leave at the time. Between November 2008 and January 2009, Usher presented the weekend bulletin of Nine News Sydney. This was after the resignation of Mike Munro and before the appointment of former weeknight presenter Mark Ferguson as the permanent weekend anchor. Also from 2009, Usher finished his role as presenter of the Sunday Morning News, as the bulletin was replaced with Today on Sunday. In March 2009, Usher was appointed as a permanent reporter for Nine's 60 Minutes program.
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