Clive Myrie

Clive Myrie


Clive was born in Bolton and graduated from the University of Sussex with a Law Degree. He then went on to join the BBC on the corporations graduate journalist programme. He worked across a number of shows and stations and landed a job ion the BBC Television and Radio News.
 
In 1996, he became a BBC foreign correspondent, and has since reported from more than 50 countries. He initially became the BBC's Tokyo correspondent, and then the Los Angeles correspondent in 1997.

He was appointed a BBC Asia Correspondent in 2002, and during the Iraq war of 2003 he was "embedded" with Royal Marines from 40 Commando, a unit of 3 Commando Brigade, part of the British Armed Forces. He then went on to report from Paris and then became the European Correspondent based in Brussels.

His career he has encompassed major stories such as the war in Kosovo, the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton, and wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Clive has won a number of awards, including a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival (2003) for his coverage of the Iraq war and a Screen Nations Award for Services to Broadcast Journalism (2003). He has also been nominated twice for the Bayeaux War Correspondents Award (2001 and 2003) and for a BAFTA Award (2000), as part of the BBC team covering the floods in Mozambique.

In April 2009 the BBC announced Clive as a presenter on the BBC News channel, a position which he is currently enjoying very much.
 
Away from work, Clive enjoys trips to the cinema and listening to jazz.
 

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