Adam Parsons

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Adam Parsons (born July 15, 1970) is a Sports Correspondent with BBC News. He is also a presenter on the 24 hour BBC News Channel and often fronts Sports Day on the channel, as well as being a regular presenter of the programme Your News. He has been a reporter on Panorama, the BBC's current affairs programme[1], and is a familiar voice across BBC Radio. Whilst the 2012 Olympic bids were taking place Parsons worked as the BBC's Olympic bid specialist^[1]

Before joining the BBC, he launched the sports section of the Sunday Business newspaper, and was the paper's Sports Editor. At that point, he was the youngest Sports Editor on a British national newspaper. He was previously Motor Racing Correspondent of The Sunday Times and has written widely about Formula One.

He went to Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, and studied Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford. Parsons started his career at the Watford Observer newspaper.