The five-time Walkley Award-winning journalist and host of 7.30 also reveals who’s at the top of her interview wish list.
Sarah Ferguson and her friend, the late, great journalist Liz Jackson, used to have a pact. It was called the “never confrontingly ugly” agreement, and it was struck between the two prize-winning journalists as a way of ensuring they were just-presentable-enough to appear on camera from a war zone, or a disaster zone, or hanging off the back of a donkey cart, or any other spot the foreign correspondents found themselves in.
“I look like I’m 130 years old,” she says. “But I’m like, ‘How can I mind this? I am not entitled to mind this! I am going into a war. I am surrounded by suffering.’” Ferguson and I are having lunch at Next Door in Sydney’s Double Bay. She is casual in a pink shirt and minimal jewellery. She laughs freely and often – especially when she relays an anecdote from 2008 when legendary former Channel Nine CEO David Gyngell was trying to convince her to stay with the network .He told Ferguson she could have a career like the former CBS correspondent Lara Logan. “Gyngell said, ‘You could be like her, flying into war zones.
It is intimidating interviewing a Gold Walkley winner. I should ask her what she would ask herself, if she were in my position. Instead, I ask her how she extracts something new or surprising from wily, media-savvy subjects. “I have never met another journalist with the same ability to get to the heart of the matter fast,” Ferguson says of her husband, Tony Jones.Ferguson has been married to fellow award-winning journalist Tony Jones since 1992. They met when Ferguson was embarking on her career, working as a freelance producer in Paris. Jones was a foreign correspondent, and when they laid eyes on each other at Charles de Gaulle airport, it was aThe pair are competitive but also collegiate.
“Having children is lovely and being a working mother is so hard – that period of school and all the micro-anxieties that are there for a mother.”“It’s so cute, I want to die! The reward of this period of time… I could honestly just cry into our plates,” she says of her sons.
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