Bill Neely
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| Bill Neely | |
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| Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Ethnicity | Irish |
| Occupation | Broadcast Journalist, Presenter, Foreign Correspondent |
| Notable credit(s) | ITV News |
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Bill Neely (born 1959) is International Editor for ITV News, the news service produced by ITN for British commercial broadcaster ITV. He has been a broadcaster since 1981. Neely was appointed to his current post in 2002 and reports from all over the globe.
In 2010, he reported on the earthquake in Haiti, for which he won the 2010 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for the best news coverage. He covered the campaign of David Cameron in the 2010 UK general election. More recently, he has reported on the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Libyan,Egyptian and Syrian revolutions, the Iranian elections of 2008, the terrorist attack in Mumbai, and the 2008 Presidential election in the US.
His reports from the deadly earthquake in China won the 2009 International Emmy Award for News and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Television News. Earlier in 2008 he reported from the Antarctic-600 miles from the South Pole-on global warming. He covered the aftermath of the devastating Pakistan earthquake, the 2005 floods in New Orleans and the Asian tsunami.
He is one of the few television journalists to return regularly to Helmand and Kandahar Provinces, Afghanistan to report on the battle UK and US troops are fighting with the Taliban. He was also part of the ITV News team whose reports from the Asian Tsunami won the 2005 BAFTA award for news ("Seven Days That Shook The World").
He won the 2011 BAFTA for his reporting of the killings in Cumbria in July 2010; his third BAFTA success in three years. He was voted Broadcasting Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club in 2011.
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[edit] Early life and education
Neely was born in Belfast in 1959, graduated with joint honours in Modern History and English from Queen's University, Belfast. He began his career with the BBC in Northern Ireland in 1981. He covered the violence there for six years before joining BBC television's news and current affairs department in London.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
After a period with Sky News,during which he helped launch the channel,Neely joined ITN in 1989 and has covered many world events, including the 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 Darfur, the death of Pope John Paul II, the siege of Beslan, and numerous natural disasters. He was nominated for a prestigious Emmy Award, one of the four Emmy nominations he has received.[citation needed]
He won three Royal Television Society awards,most recently the International News Award for coverage of the Haiti earthquake,and received numerous other awards and nominations for international news reporting over the past decade.
Neely was Washington correspondent and US Bureau Chief for six years (1991–97), covering two Presidential elections, the bombings of the World Trade Center, the Atlanta Olympics and Oklahoma City, the OJ Simpson trial,the Waco siege as well as many major stories across North and South America and the Caribbean. From 1997-2002 he was Europe Correspondent, covering the death of Diana, Princess of Wales for which he was part of the team nominated for a BAFTA award; the crash of Concorde and the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. ITN received the Golden Nymph from the Monte Carlo Television Festival, Europe's top award for television journalism, for his work in Kosovo. He has also reported regularly from the Middle East and Northern Ireland. On occasions, Neely can be seen as a presenter on various ITV News programmes.[citation needed]
[edit] Marriage and family
He lives in Richmond, SW London with his wife, Marion.They have two daughters, Sarah and Emma. Bill runs for the Ranelagh Harriers running club and completed the 2011 Virgin London Marathon in 3.09.48.
[edit] External links
- Bill Neely at the Internet Movie Database
- Bill Neely on Twitter
- ITV News at itv.com
