Paul Welsh

Paul Welsh is a British television and radio correspondent and presenter. He was born in England in 1961, but moved frequently because his father was a serving member of the RAF. His family lived in England, Germany, Singapore, Scotland and Cyprus. Studied Physics at the University of Nottingham from 1979-82.

Career

Welsh is best known for coverage of conflicts and disasters; particularly the civil wars in Kosovo, Ivory Coast and Liberia, and the famines in Somalia and Sudan.

He left full-time work at the BBC in 2006, after almost 20 years, and he now runs a production company called Mosquito Media.

Roles for the BBC included World Affairs Correspondent, West Africa Correspondent, Defence & Security Correspondent, TV Duty Editor, presenter of the World Service programmes "Newshour" and "The World Today", and reporter/presenter on the television programmes "Breakfast" and "Newsround".

He wrote a number of articles for "The Independent" newspaper in the 1990s.

Welsh has presented BBC programmes on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News 24, BBC World Service, BBC World TV. Reported for the BBC on all of those and Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4, BBC Three, BBC Four.

A founding member, and former station manager, of University Radio Nottingham he reported freelance for the city's commercial station Radio Trent. Professionally he has worked for Centre Radio in Leicester, Pennine Radio in Bradford, Radio Aire in Leeds, Radio City in Liverpool.

Awards

Won a Royal Television Society award for a documentary on the Somali famine and the Premier Award of the One World Broadcasting Trust for reporting from Sudan.

Family history

Grandson of William Welsh, one of the marchers on the Jarrow Crusade.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/reporters/4529927.stm BBC Profile]
* [http://www.MosquitoMedia.tv Mosquito Media]