''Dateline'' is an Australian television international current affairs program broadcast on SBS. Since its debut at on Friday 19 October 1984, it has focused largely on international events, often in developing or warring nations. In 2015 the program changed its format going from one-hour episodes featuring multiple stories, to half-hour single subject episodes. The series focuses on under-reported stories from around the globe, with a documentary style. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 9.30pm following Insight, and all episodes are available to view on

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. It remains the longest-running international current affairs program in Australia.

History

Since its conception, the Dateline has covered topics such as: global conflict, environmental policies, social justice, crime, women’s rights, social change, and global politics. Dateline reporters have covered events including: the

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, violence in East Timor (2006), the

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, global terror attacks, the rise of

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, the

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, the USA under Trump,

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, and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong – to name a few. It currently runs for 32 episodes a year. The long-running current affairs program has also accumulated many awards over its lifetime, including

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

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s, and

UNAA Media Peace Awards The United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) is the official non-profit, non-government, membership-based, organisation in Australia working on behalf of the United Nations core body to promote its overall aims and ideals, and equally s ...

, New York Festival Awards, an Australian Screen Editors Guild Award, as well as nominations for the One World Media Awards, the Association of International Broadcasting and the Asian Academy Awards.

George Negus George Edward Negus AM (born 13 March 1942) is an Australian journalist, author, television and radio presenter specialising in international affairs. He was a pioneer of Australian TV journalism, first appearing on the ABC’s groundbreaking T ...

hosted the program from 2005 until 2010, replacing journalist

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, who in his period between 2003–2004 gained several nominations for the

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. He was preceded in the host's chair by Jana Wendt and

Pria Viswalingam Anandan Pria Viswalingam is an Australian documentary and film maker. He is a Sydney-based producer, writer and director, known earlier for his work with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) network. Viswalingam was born in Kota Bahru, Federa ...

. Negus was replaced by his predecessor Mark Davis and Yalda Hakim, another Dateline journalist.

Helen Vatsikopoulos Helen Vatsikopoulos is an Australian journalist, academic and documentary film-maker. She worked for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) prior to joining University of Technology, Sydney in Sep ...

also spent time as host. In December 2012, Yalda Hakim resigned from ''Dateline'' to join

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. Yalda was replaced by former CNN presenter Anjali Rao in February 2013. In 2015 under the new program format the role of studio host was removed. Since then the half-hour episodes have been fronted by a team of award winning reporters including Evan Williams, Amos Roberts, Catherine Scott, Calliste Weitenberg, Dean Cornish, and guest reporters from within SBS News and Current Affairs such as Marc Fennell, Janice Petersen, Jan Fran and Laura Murphy Oates. Dateline’s Executive Producers have included: Mike Carey (1999–2007), Peter Charley (2007–2014), and Bernadine Lim (2014–2018). Bernadine Lim left the program in 2018 to become the Head of Documentaries at Screen Australia. Georgina Davies is the current Executive Producer having been promoted to the role from Series Producer in 2018.

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External links

Official website
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