Stephen Lee (TV presenter)

Infobox Person
name = Stephen Lee
birth_date = 1972
nationality = British
known_for = Television news presenting
employer = ITV
title = News Presenter
website = http://www.stephenlee.tv

Stephen Lee (born 1972) is a television presenter and television newsreader currently working for ITV."'

Education

Stephen Lee was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Broadcast Journalists (NCTBJ) in 1992. He studied at Highbury College in Portsmouth.

Career

Stephen Lee started his media career in 1992 at radio station BBC Radio Norfolk as a radio reporter and progressed to radio newsreader and radio presenter. He presented the breakfast programme "Today in Norfolk" and the drivetime show "Norfolk Tonight" as well as a weekend entertainment show called "Saturday Stretch".

In this period, Stephen was selected by Cellnet to become the voice of its national mobile phone network. He recorded a series of announcements for callers.

He worked briefly for the BBC's regional news programme "Look East" as a Regional Journalist before moving to the BBC's bi-media base in Cambridge where he worked in both radio and television. He presented and produced the Breakfast Show and also the Drivetime Show.

In 1998 he joined ITV and started work as a journalist at Anglia Television. After eight years presenting the GMTV bulletins and occasional editions of Anglia Tonight, in late 2006 he joined Clare Weller full-time as co-anchor of the regional news programme Anglia Tonight, broadcast across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex at 6pm weekdays on ITV1.

Stephen was nominated as Journalist of the Year in the 2006 Creative East Awards.

In February 2007, Stephen took part in a televised ice skating challenge, learning a routine from scratch in five weeks. His progress and final performance were shown in a series on Anglia Tonight.

In October 2007, Stephen was invited by Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife, to a reception at 10 Downing Street to represent ITV marking the ITV Carer of the Year Awards, of which he was a regional judge.

External links

* [http://www.stephenlee.tv Stephen Lee's website]
* [http://www.itvlocal.com/anglia ITV Local Anglia website]