Bill Neely
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Bill Neely is International Editor for ITV News, the news service produced by ITN for British commercial broadcaster ITV. Bill was appointed to the role in 2002 and reports from all over the globe, adding diplomatic analysis and context to key international stories.
Most recently,he reported from the deadly earthquake in China-his reports leading the news on NBC and CNN,as well as on his own network.He broadcast a report based on video shot twenty seconds after the main quake. Earlier in 2008 he reported from the Antarctic-600 miles from the South Pole-on global warming,broadcasting live from inside a glacier.He covered the aftermath of the devastating Pakistan Earthquake,the floods in New Orleans and the Asian Tsunami.He is one of the few journalists to go regularly to Helmand Province in Afghanistan to report on the fierce battle UK troops are fighting with the Taliban in what is Afghanistan’s most dangerous area.
Neely is also a co-newsreader on the Lunchtime News and the Evening News.
He was born in Belfast in 1959,graduated in Modern History and English from Queen's University,Belfast and began his career with the B.B.C. in Northern Ireland in 1981. He covered the violence there for six years before joining B.B.C.network television in London. After a brief period with Sky News he joined ITN in 1989. During his time at ITN he has covered many world events amongst which have been the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the first and second Gulf Wars, the attack on the World Trade Center, the mass killings in the Darfur region of Sudan, the death of Pope John Paul the second, the siege of Beslan and the Asian Tsunami. For the last two of these he was nominated for a prestigious Emmy award in the United States. Bill covered World Cups and an Olympic Games,numerous natural disasters and many international summits.He has won two Royal Television Society awards and received numerous other awards and nominations for international news reporting over the past decade.He was Washington correspondent and U.S. Bureau Chief for six years(1991-1997),covering two Presidential elections,the bombings of the World Trade Centre,the Atlanta Olympics and Oklahoma City,the OJ Simpson trial,the Waco siege as well as numerous major stories across North and South America and the Caribbean.From 1997 to 2002 he was Europe Correspondent,covering the death of [[Diana,Princess of Wales],the crash of Concorde]and the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. ITN received the Golden Nymph award,Europe's top award for television journalism,for his work in Kosovo. He has also reported regularly from the Middle East.
He lives in London and has two daughters.
