Keir Simmons

Keir Simmons is a British television reporter for ITV News, and has recently covered the Tsunami [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/02/se.01.html] , the 7/7 bombings [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8503341/] and the death of Russian Alexander Litvinenko [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/news_summaries/2006/11/summary_20.html] . In 2003 he was nominated for an RTS Award [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/uploads/LWT_Statement_of_Programme_Commitments_2003.pdf] .

Early years

He was born in London in 1972, grew up in Bristol, and received a Bachelor's degree from Goldsmiths College in London. [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=78350683] He currently lives in South East London. [http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/qanda/answers.php?page=keirsimmons]

Career

Keir joined ITN as a reporter for IRN in 1996. He subsequently worked for Sky News, Five News and ITV's London Tonight [http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/qanda/answers.php?page=keirsimmons] .

Additional Work

Keir also writes for the Financial Times [http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto070820050129004983] [http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?page=1&queryText=%22Sierra+Leone%22&drillDown=-gatopics%3A%22Law+%26+Legal+Issues%22&id=030704003994] and works as a facilitator of live debates and events [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news/events/lecture2007] .

ources

* http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/qanda/answers.php?page=keirsimmons

References

1 CNN off air transcript, 2nd Jan 2005

2 MSNBC off air transcript, 7th July 2005

3 PBS off air transcript, 20th Nov 2006

4 TV Newsroom website

5 Financial Times, 8th July 2005

6 Financial Times, 4th July, 2003

7 Brunel University debate, March 2007