Steve Gaisford

Steve Gaisford is a British news presenter working for ITV News and Al Jazeera English. Steve will also appear on the new Setanta Sports News channel.

His on-screen career began when he became Five's first weekend sports presenter before moving on to work for GMTV and ITV's "London Tonight" programme.

Steve worked for 9 years at Sky News, and is best known for anchoring the weekend Sky News Sunrise programme with Emma Crosby from October 2005 through to his departure from the channel in April 2007. He presented news and sports programmes for the Sky network initially appearing in 1998 on Sky Sports News.

Steve Gaisford has covered many breaking news stories including The Asian Tsunami, The Death of Pope John Paul II and The Madrid train bombings and from the world of sport including the live media circus that was David Beckham signing for Real Madrid.

Steve can currently be seen presenting the "ITV Morning News", ITV London's "London Tonight" late news programme, "Setanta Sports News" and working alongside former Sky colleague Barbara Serra on Al Jazeera English, the new International news channel.

Steve Gaisford is the brother of GMTV's chief correspondent Richard Gaisford.

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSZ0H7tNwY Steve Gaisford (presenting on Sky News)] on YouTube
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/21/7?gusrc=rss&feed=media Steve Gaisford interview with Media Guardian]