Stephen Cole (broadcaster)

Stephen Cole
Born	Stephen Joseph Samuel Cole Hereford, United Kingdom
Residence	London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Broadcaster, journalist, presenter, newsreader
Organization	Institute of Diplomacy and Business
Spouse(s)	Anne-Marie Cole
Children	3 sons
Parent(s)	Brian Cole and Patricia Cole
Website	http://www.stephen-cole.co.uk/

Stephen Cole is a broadcast journalist, currently working as chairman for Institute of Diplomacy and Business in London. Previously, he worked for the BBC and Al Jazeera English.

Cole joined Al Jazeera English on 2 December 2005, in the run-up to its launch. He is currently an anchor, based at the main broadcast-centre, in Doha in Qatar, where he was a presenter on the flagship-programme Newshour. He was also a host of studio-based discussion-programmes, such as Inside Story.

At the BBC, Cole was a presenter of the BBC World programme Click Online from 2000 to 2005 and was a regular newsreader on BBC World News.

During the strike action by BBC technical staff and journalists on 23 May 2005, he was the stand-in presenter for the national BBC News coverage, which included presenting the Six O'Clock News and Ten O'Clock News bulletins on BBC One and BBC News 24. The bulletins apparently drew in more viewers than usual and resulted in his becoming known as "the Peter Pan of television".

As well as helping launching Al Jazeera English, Cole is probably best known for being part of the launch-teams of two other leading broadcasters. One of the organisations was CNN International, in their new facility in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1989.

The other launch in which he was involved was that of Sky News. In 1989, he started his career as an anchor with the organisation, then known as BSkyB.

Before that, he worked for Central Television in Birmingham, Anglia Television's About Anglia, and also for ITN.

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