[4] Jones hosted ABC TV's Lateline news and current affairs program from 1999.

"[5] In 2006, Jones and Lateline embarked on a series of stories that provided the catalyst for the Northern Territory Intervention.

In 2010 on the Q&A program with Jones as host, former Taliban supporter David Hicks submitted an antagonistic question to former Prime Minister John Howard.

In the same program, Jones apologised to Howard after a man threw his shoes at him in protest against the Iraq War.

In 2019, Jones joined his wife, Sarah Ferguson, on the production of the ABC documentary series Revelation to write all three episodes.

[a] They met in Paris when Jones engaged Ferguson as a researcher while he was the ABC's UK correspondent.