Stephen Lee (TV presenter)
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| Stephen Lee | |
| Born | 1972 |
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| Nationality | British |
| Employers | ITV |
| Title | News Presenter |
| Known for | Television news presenting |
| Website http://www.stephenlee.tv |
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Stephen Lee (born 1972) is a television presenter and television newsreader currently working for ITV.
[edit] Education
Stephen Lee was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Broadcast Journalists (NCTBJ) in 1992. He studied at Highbury College in Portsmouth.
[edit] Career
Stephen Lee started his media career in 1992 at radio station BBC Radio Norfolk as a radio reporter and progressed to radio newsreader and radio presenter. He presented the breakfast programme "Today in Norfolk" and the drivetime show "Norfolk Tonight" as well as a weekend entertainment show called "Saturday Stretch".
In this period, Stephen was selected by Cellnet to become the voice of it's national mobile phone network. He recorded a series of annoucements for callers.
He worked briefly for the BBC's regional news programme "Look East" as a Regional Journalist before moving to the BBC's bi-media base in Cambridge where he worked in both radio and television. He presented and produced the Breakfast Show and also the Drivetime Show.
In 1998 he joined ITV and started work as a journalist at Anglia Television. After eight years presenting the GMTV bulletins and occasional editions of Anglia Tonight, in late 2006 he joined Clare Weller full-time as co-anchor of the regional news programme Anglia Tonight, broadcast across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex at 6pm weekdays on ITV1.
Stephen was nominated as Journalist of the Year in the 2006 Creative East Awards.
In February 2007, Stephen took part in a televised ice skating challenge, learning a routine from scratch in five weeks. His progress and final performance were shown in a series on Anglia Tonight.
In October 2007, Stephen was invited by Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife, to a reception at 10 Downing Street to represent ITV marking the ITV Carer of the Year Awards, of which he was a regional judge.
