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Richard Austin Quest (born 9 March 1962) is a British journalist and non-practising
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working as a news anchor for
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. He is also an editor-at-large of
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. He anchors ''Quest Means Business'', the five-times-weekly business programme and fronts the CNN shows '' Business Traveller'', ''The Express'' and ''Quest's World of Wonder''.


Early life and education

Quest is a native of
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in Lancashire (now
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), England, having been born and partly brought up there. He is of
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descent. He was educated at the state comprehensive Roundhay School in
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, followed by Airedale and Wharfedale College and the
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, where he earned a
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in 1983, and was called to the Bar. He spent the 1983–1984 academic year in the United States at
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in
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, where he was the news director of WRVU.


Career

Quest became a trainee journalist at the
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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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channel. He was the business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world
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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
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. He was also an occasional presenter on the BBC's early-morning '' Business Breakfast'' programme. Quest joined CNN in 2001, initially as co-presenter of newly-launched programme '' Business International''. A year later, he moved to the European breakfast show BizNews, which he presented until 2005. Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, among others an analysis of the US elections as ''American Quest'' and the start of the circulation of
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banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of
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. He has also headed up CNN's coverage of several events involving the
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. In 2006, Quest turned down an opportunity to join
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news channel, the English language version of
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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
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playing for StandUp for Kids. Quest is also an Aviation Correspondent for CNN, and extensively covered the story of
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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
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on 8 March 2016.


Personal life

In 2008, Quest was arrested in New York City's
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"with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot." Quest admitted being in possession of crystal methamphetamine, a
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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: I'm honest about who I am
Retrieved 20 April 2020.


See also

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References


External links

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CNN staff biography

CNN ''Business Traveller''

CNN ''Quest''
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