Stan Grant has given up the stresses of CNN to work three jobs,
including NITV News.   How long were you away from Australia?  I
went to London in 1996 for Channel Seven and have spent only
about three years in Australia overall since. I lived in London
for seven, and then went to Hong Kong for CNN, came back here
for a while, then went to Abu Dhabi for CNN, and then the last
three years I've been in Beijing for CNN.  Your first job in
media was copy boy at The Canberra Times …  Yes, while I was at
uni. I went to work for Macquarie Radio in 1983 and in 1987
joined ABC TV and was a political correspondent there until 1992
and then joined Seven.  How did you get a job at CNN?  I'd been
in London with Seven and had come back to Sydney. I got a phone
call from a VP at CNN offering me a position. Two weeks later I
flew to Hong Kong.  You have four children, 23 to 11, did they
move overseas with you?  Yes, until they got to high school.
You've travelled to some interesting places at CNN …  It's an
incredibly stres