Keith Wilkinson (reporter)
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Keith Wilkinson is a British television reporter.
Born in Lancashire, England, he began his career in newspaper journalism, as a trainee reporter at The Westmorland Gazette in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1974. He joined Central Television in Birmingham in 1984 as a production journalist and bulletin newsreader.
Keith Wilkinson is now a senior reporter appearing on ITV1 Central News and Central Tonight. He has won ten awards for broadcasting, including the national BT Television News Broadcaster of the Year, the ITV1 Piece to Camera Gold Award 2004, and the Birmingham Press Club's Scoop of the Year.
In 1993 he produced an ITV documentary called Stephanie's Story about the kidnapping of estate agent Stephanie Slater by the murderer Michael Sams.
In 2006 he was photographed in the Daily Star having a bucket of water poured over his head, as a joke, by Chris Tarrant, star of ITV1 Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
The son of an RAF Wellington Bomber tail gunner, Keith spends his spare time researching World War Two. He is the flight correspondent for an Australian wartime squadron.
