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Jon Snow (born 28 September 1947) is an English journalist and presenter, currently employed by ITN. He is best known for presenting Channel 4 News.

He is also known for his vast collection of colourful ties.

He is the son of the schoolmaster and Bishop, George D`Oyly Snow, grandson of First World War general Thomas D`Oyly Snow and cousin of retired BBC television news presenter Peter Snow.

Snow was born in Ardingly, Sussex. His father was an Anglican clergyman and schoolteacher, and he was brought up at Ardingly College, an independent school where his father George D`Oyly Snow was headmaster. He later attended the independent St Edward`s School in Oxford. 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, where, he later 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, in which he threw paint over the statue of Queen Victoria in Scarborough, then 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 with which he has remained involved and of which he subsequently became chairman. Snow was an assistant to Lord Longford and for a year was a VSO volunteer in Northern Uganda, East Africa.

Snow was briefly engaged in 1979 to fellow ITN journalist Anna Ford, who later became an equally high profile television news presenter.

For 35 years his partner was human rights lawyer Madeleine Colvin, with whom he has two daughters. The couple reportedly split up in May 2007.