Hobart born and bred, Mark Burrows spent much of his early reporting career in the wilds of Tasmania's south west at the height of the Franklin Dam debate. Thirty-two years later he is a senior correspondent for Nine News based in Sydney.
During his career Mark has been fortunate to have had a box seat to many history-making stories. His first Logie was awarded for his coverage of the Romanian revolution in 1989. He spent nearly six years as Nine's US correspondent, covering two presidential elections, the LA riots and earthquakes. He reported on the Oklahoma City bomb attack and the Branch Davidian shootout in Waco Texas.
In 1997 Mark was posted to Nine’s London Bureau. He covered the death of Princess Diana, the Iraq war, Kosovo and fugitive Christopher Skase on the island of Majorca.
His first Olympics was in Atlanta in 1996. Mark vividly remembers Kieran Perkins' stunning gold medal win and the bomb blast that rocked the city hours later. He returned from a three-year stint in Nine's London Bureau to be part of the Network's reporting team for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He had a trackside seat watching the blaze of camera flashes capture Cathy Freeman's effortless win in the 400 metres.
In 1999 Mark earned a Walkley award for his reporting of the Interlaken canyon disaster in Switzerland.
Over the last 10 years he has reported extensively across South East Asia. In 2002, he led Nine's coverage of the Bali bombings. His interviews with victims and the bombers earned Nine a Walkley award and a Logie for outstanding news coverage. He later secured the first interview with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
He has been to Afghanistan three times, embedded with Australian soldiers in 2010 and 2011.
One of his favourite assignments over the years has been to the Anzac Day commemorations on the Western Front in France and at Gallipoli.
Mark recently covered the London Olympics for Nine News.
He is married with two sons.
In the days surrounding the anniversary of Diana’s death, expect an avalanche of stories about the princess from those who knew her best, as well as documentaries about the real Diana, and of what could have been if she had survived.
Broadcaster Alan Jones is on the ropes tonight fighting for his job at 2GB as more and more advertisers pull sponsorship from his top rating show.
Serious security deficiencies have been uncovered at a regional airport, with fake bombs passing through screening undetected.
Australian Matt Graham is a pocket rocket built for mogul skiing, and after taking silver at the last Winter Olympics he has a bigger prize in sight.
The average person could be ingesting 2000 tiny pieces of plastic every week - the equivalent of a credit card - with drinking water the largest source.
Bianca Harrington had taken a cocktail of drugs when she fatally hit Sydney aged care nurse Kay Shaylor - but she was not 'substantially impaired'.
Thousands of Australian women are joining the class action against Bayer after being left with crippling side effects from the Essure coil implant.
The Singaporeans have a well-earned reputation for efficiency. It’s one of the reasons why they are hosting this summit of summits, the Donald and Kim show.
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Salim Mehajer has failed in his third attept to get bail after being charged with perverting the course of justice by allegedly feigning a car accident on his way to a court appearance.
Former bikie boss Hassan 'Sam' Ibrahim has been sentenced to at least six years' jail for conspiring to supply prohibited firearms in Sydney in 2014.
The secret son of hotel magnate John Hemmes has successfully sued his late father’s estate for $1.75 million.
A man arrested after an alleged plot to blow up a passenger flight at Sydney airport has appeared in court on a charge of possessing a homemade taser.
The family of Justine Damond will know next week about whether the US police officer who shot her in an alleyway will be charged.
Sydney town was just 12 years old when the patrons of The Wheatsheaf pub in Parramatta crowded in and ordered their ales and rum.
A Colombian judge has agreed to a plea deal which could see the accused drug smuggler released from jail in less than three years.
The former president of the NSW RSL, Don Rowe, has admitted he was dishonest and wrong using the charity’s credit card to buy flights, mobile phone and luxury hotel rooms for his family.
A truck driver charged over an accident which killed a Fairfield fireman on Woronora Bridge, in southern Sydney, allegedly had methamphetamine in his system.
T-minus 5 days. More than 12 years after she was arrested carrying a body bag full of marijuana, Schapelle Corby is preparing to return home.
Three women who claim a GlaxoSmithKline drug caused long-term medical conditions are seeking justice in the NSW Supreme Court.
After weeks of lying low, embattled Seven Network CEO Tim Worner has broken his silence about an affair with employee Amber Harrison.
The US and its allies are setting their sights on the Syrian city of Raqqa – the self-proclaimed capital of Islamic State – with an offensive to re-take the city expected soon.
Dozens of villages in Iraq have been freed from the clutches of Islamic State, with coalition forces now within five kilometres of Mosul.
