Clive Myrie

Clive Myrie is the anchor of the BBC’s main evening nightly news and the BBC’s chief news correspondent. One of the best-known faces on British television, he is a journalist, documentary maker, writer and author. 

He began his career in UK local radio and TV, before being posted to Japan in 1996. Since then, he’s been the BBC’s Africa, Asia, Washington, and Europe correspondent. He’s covered major stories for more than 30 years, including the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, and the Middle East. He’s reported on every US presidential race since 1996 and anchored the BBC’s main nightly news coverage of the re-election of Donald Trump. 

In 2022 he travelled to Ukraine to anchor the BBC’s coverage of the Russian invasion and has reported from the country many times. He also anchored the BBC’s coverage of the Israel/Hamas conflict and was part of the team anchoring the death of Queen Elizabeth in 2022. 

Myrie has won four Royal Television Society Awards, including Network Presenter of the Year twice and Journalist of the Year, and won a Peabody Award for reports on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Everything is Everything, his Sunday Times bestselling memoir, was published in 2023.