Jonathan Samuels (born 1972) is a British broadcaster and journalist. He co-anchored Sky News

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between 2016 and 2018 and now anchors The News Hour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well as News at Ten during weekend periods. He can also be seen elsewhere across the schedule. Previously he held a range of senior correspondent posts for ''

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'', the 24-hour television news service, including being based in

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from 2011 to 2014. Previously, Samuels was Chief Correspondent on Five News. He also presented and reported for

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and BBC Spotlight and began his broadcasting career as a BBC trainee at

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Education

Samuels was educated at The King's School, in

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, and later studied at

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and then

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

, where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in

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Life and career

A journalist for more than 20 years, Samuels has covered domestic and international stories. Samuels covered the missing miners in Chile, conflicts in the Middle East, protests in Hong Kong and Bangkok, tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia, bushfires in Australia, floods in Pakistan and Europe, terror attacks and royal tours. For a number of months he was based in LA covering the Michael Jackson trial and also spent weeks following the search for missing plane MH370. He anchored live coverage of the G7 summit, COP26, the fall of Kabul, the rise and fall of Boris Johnson, the

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, Platinum jubilee and deaths of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth. When not working Jonathan is a keen traveller, plane enthusiast and author. He lives in West London with his wife Laura Bundock, Sky's Royal Correspondent and two children.

References

Official website for Jonathan Samuels

External links

Sky Profile
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