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Richard Austin Quest (born 9 March 1962) is a British journalist and non-practising
Quest became a trainee journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC's North American business correspondent.
Quest later worked for the BBC from the United States as part of its then-fledgling
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barrister
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working as a news anchor for CNN International
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. He is also an editor-at-large of CNN Business
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.
He anchors ''Quest Means Business'', the five-times-weekly business program and fronts the CNN shows '' Business Traveller'', ''The Express'' and ''Quest's World of Wonder''.
Early life and education
Quest is a native ofLiverpool
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, Lancashire (now Merseyside
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), England, having been born and partly brought up there. He is Jewish
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He was educated at the state comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds
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, followed by Airedale and Wharfedale College and the University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws
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in 1983, and was called to the Bar
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. He spent the 1983–1984 academic year in the United States at Vanderbilt University
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in Nashville
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, Tennessee, where he was the news director of WRVU.
Career
Quest became a trainee journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC's North American business correspondent.
Quest later worked for the BBC from the United States as part of its then-fledgling BBC News 24
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channel. He was the business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world stock market
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in a regular segment entitled ''World Business Report'' usually aired between 2:00 am and 3:00 am (GMT), a programme that he presented alongside Paddy O'Connell
Guy Patrick O'Connell (born 11 March 1966 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English television and radio presenter, working mainly for the BBC. He presents BBC Radio 4's ''Broadcasting House'' programme each Sunday morning. He is also an occasional ...
. He was also an occasional presenter on the BBC's early-morning ''Business Breakfast
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'' programme.
Quest joined CNN in 2001 for the launch of '' Business International''. Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, amongst others an analysis of the U.S. elections as ''American Quest'' and the start of the circulation of euro
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banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of Concorde
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Studies started in 1954, and France an ...
. He has also headed up CNN's coverage of several events involving the British Royal Family.
In 2006, Quest turned down an opportunity to join Al Jazeera English
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news channel, the English language version of al-Jazeera
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, "on the grounds that being gay and Jewish might not be suitable".
On 9 April 2015, Quest was announced as the host of the ABC game show '' 500 Questions''. He was replaced by Dan Harris for the show's second season.
On 8 June 2015, Quest appeared as a contestant on ''The CNN Quiz Show: The Seventies Edition'' special produced by Eimear Crombie, along with his partner Brooke Baldwin playing for StandUp for Kids
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Quest is also an Aviation Correspondent for CNN, and extensively covered the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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, which disappeared on 8 March 2014. Quest later wrote the book, ''The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane'', published by Penguin Random House
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on 8 March 2016.
Personal life
In 2008, Quest was arrested in New York City'sCentral Park
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with drug possessions in his pocket, a rope around his neck attached to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot. Quest admitted being in possession of crystal methamphetamine
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, a controlled substance
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.
On 26 June 2014, Quest described his past experience as a closeted gay man on his CNN television programme ''Quest Means Business''.
Quest tested positive for COVID-19
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in April 2020, later saying it had developed into long COVID.
See also
*Broadcast journalism
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* LGBT culture in New York City
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* List of LGBT people from New York City
New York City is home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' writes that the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most ...
* New Yorkers in journalism
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References
External links
*CNN staff biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quest, Richard 1962 births 20th-century English people 21st-century English people Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds BBC newsreaders and journalists CNN people English expatriates in the United States English Jews English television journalists Gay men Journalists from New York City People educated at Roundhay School LGBT broadcasters from the United Kingdom LGBT Jews LGBT journalists from the United Kingdom Television presenters from Liverpool Vanderbilt University alumni English people of Jewish descent