Scott Bevan
Scott Bevan was appointed the ABC’s Moscow Correspondent in January 2008.
Prior to the posting, Scott was a reporter and occasional fill-in host for ABC’s nightly television current affairs program, The 7.30 Report. Since beginning work for the ABC in mid-2005, Scott has also produced for Australian Story and presented on ABC Local Radio.
Scott has taken the long way to Moscow. He began in journalism in 1984 at The Newcastle Herald, before reporting and presenting news for commercial radio. With a desire to use the Japanese he had studied at university, he moved to Tokyo in 1989 and stayed for 15 months. His language skills improved, but not nearly as much as his ability to perform karaoke.
Realising his days of singing Country Roads Take Me Home were numbered, Scott returned to Australia and became a television reporter. He worked for the Nine Network in news and current affairs. Among the major events he reported on were the East Timor crisis in 1999-2000, the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Banda Aceh.
He returned to East Timor for The 7.30 Report in May-June 2006, to report on the civil unrest in the young nation.
In addition to pursuing journalism, Scott has written two plays that have been produced and two non-fiction books, the most recent being Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War.
When he’s not chasing stories in Russia, the former Soviet states and Eastern Europe, Scott is chasing his twin boys.
