Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier (born March 28, 1968), is a News Presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He is based at Sky News Centre in West London. He was formerly a correspondent for BBC News and ITV News, and at Sky has presented Sky News Today's afternoon shift between 2:00pm and 5:00pm, currently presenting on the channel from 10am to 1pm on Thursday and Friday and from 10am to 12pm on Saturday.
Early life
Brazier was born in 1968 in Bradford in West Yorkshire.
Education
Brazier was educated at Carlton Bolling College, a state school in Bradford.
Life and career
Brazier began his career in newspapers, working for The Northern Echo, Yorkshire Post and The Observer after graduating from university with a degree in English Literature and opting not to take a place as an infantry soldier with the Green Howards. After working with BBC News and ITV News, he joined Sky News in 1997, as Royal, Diplomatic and Political Correspondent. His time as a Sky News correspondent included him being the first non-American to broadcast live from Baghdad International Airport, a record which prompted the Daily Telegraph to write in a leader on 12 April entitled "Where was the BBC?": "The BBC refused to acknowledge…that American troops were in Baghdad, even though you had only to switch to Sky to see them there."
Brazier then became Sky News' Europe Correspondent' following a stint in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where his coverage, jointly undertaken with colleague David Chater, won a Gold Medal at the 2003 New York TV Festival. Shortly afterwards, Brazier became a news presenter in the studio, and covered regularly for more established presenters on programmes such as Sky News with Martin Stanford and Live at Five, as well as presenting both shifts of Sky News Today for a time. In July 2006, he reported from Northern Israel and later anchored from Jerusalem at the time of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Brazier has conducted in-depth interviews many important international figures, among them the then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Portugal, on 19 July 2007,[1] and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya in Tripoli, in October 2009.
From 8 September 2008, Brazier fronted a new programme for Sky News, entitled The Live Desk, which ran between 1pm - 2pm and then he remains on to present the headlines for Afternoon Live between 2pm and 5pm. Sky News made further changes to its schedule in February 2009 which saw the introduction an extra edition of The Live Desk between 9am and 10am. This was fronted by Brazier who then stayed on to present the 1pm edition of The Live Desk. The programme was replaced in 2011 by Bolton and Company, presented by Sky News' Political Editor, Adam Boulton.
Family
Brazier is of Irish descent. His great-grandmother hailed from County Mayo, when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. His great-grandmother left Mayo for England. He is married with five daughters and a son.
Other media appearances
In 2012, Brazier made a cameo appearance as a newsreader in the latest Bourne thriller movie, The Bourne Legacy.
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