Michael Holmes is a co-anchor for CNN International's rolling newscast 'Your World Today'. Holmes, the first Australian anchor for CNN International, joined the network in April 1996.
Although primarily an Atlanta-based anchor, he has reported extensively from the Middle East, India, Nepal and Pakistan, and he spent nearly two months reporting for CNN from Afghanistan.
In 2006 Holmes hosted 'CNN Future Summit', a forum that explored the promises technology of tomorrow brings, from Singapore. This forum brought together some of the world's most renown scientists, inventors and futurists.
During the war in Iraq, Holmes was one of the network's lead anchors reporting on all aspects of the war from Kuwait City and then Baghdad once the Hussein regime fell. He spent several weeks anchoring CNNI's coverage from the Iraqi capital, as well as producing many taped reports during a time of continued skirmishes.
He has since returned several times to Iraq to report on the ongoing insurgency and occupation. He recently returned to Iraq to report on many issues including the trial of Saddam Hussein. In January 2004 he survived an ambush on a two-vehicle CNN convoy which left two CNN staff members dead and one wounded.
Holmes spent a month covering the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece for CNNI. He has also conducted workshops for affiliates in Indonesia, Hong Kong and Thailand.
In April 2002 he was one of the few journalists reporting from Ramallah during the Israeli incursion, and, despite Israeli gunfire, secured an exclusive interview with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat inside his besieged headquarters during a highly dangerous period in the West Bank.
As an anchor, he has interviewed prime ministers and presidents of several nations and has anchored numerous live events and breaking news stories from around the world.
Before joining CNNI, Holmes worked for Australia's Nine Network, and was one of the few Australian journalists to cover first hand the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Holmes was based in London for four years as the network's European correspondent for current affairs, covering such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Lockerbie plane crash, Northern Ireland and the start of the first Gulf War. His reports in Bucharest during the miners' uprising in 1990 earned him an Australian Television Society Award for Coverage of a Current Affairs Story.
After working in newspapers for nearly five years, he began his television career in 1982 with the Nine Network in Perth. He also has worked for several British media outlets, including WTN, The Observer newspaper and TV-AM.
Apart from covering some of the most historic news events in recent times, Holmes has also conducted interviews with entertainment celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Tom Cruise, Sean Connery and Dustin Hoffman.
He began his career in 1978, at the age of 17, as a cub reporter with the Daily News, an afternoon newspaper in Perth.
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