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Jon Snow (born September 28 1947 in Ardingly, Sussex ) is a British television Newscaster on Channel 4 News , produced by ITN . His father was an Anglican clergyman and schoolteacher, and he was brought up at Ardingly College , a minor Public School where his father was headmaster. However, he attended a different public school in Oxford named St Edward's School . His father would later become Bishop Of Whitby . After mixed success in his first attempt to pass his A Level qualifications he moved to Yorkshire Coast College , Scarborough later where he obtained the necessary qualifications to gain a place studying law at University Of Liverpool . However, he did not complete the degree, being Rusticated for his part in a student protest, and opting not to return. After leaving Liverpool he worked for New Horizon Youth Centre , a day centre for young drug addicts in central London - an organisation he has remained involved with and subsequently became chairman of. He then joined the radio station LBC as a journalist, and then moved on to news organisation, ITN in 1976. In 1979 he was briefly engaged to fellow ITN journalist Anna Ford , who later became an equally high profile television news presenter. He served as ITN's diplomatic editor (1986-1989) and Washington correspondent (1983-1986) before becoming the main presenter of Channel 4 News in 1989. He has won several RTS Awards - two for reports from El Salvador , one for his reporting of the Kegworth Air Disaster , and two as "Presenter of the Year". One of the most memorable moments of Snow's presentation of the Channel 4 news came in 2003 when at the height of the " Dodgy Dossier " affair Alistair Campbell walked into the studio to rebut statements by the BBC . With no notes or preparation he questioned Campbell about the affair. Snow is a trustee of the National Gallery and, in this capacity, sits as a trustee also of the Tate Gallery . In the released papers of trustee meetings of the latter institution, Snow was the only trustee to seriously question the gallery's purchase of '' The Upper Room '' by Chris Ofili . In 2006 he returned to radio, presenting Jon Snow Reports on Oneword Radio , a weekly show and Podcast . TRIVIA
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