Tim Wilcox

Timothy Melton "Tim" Willcox (born 28 May 1963 in Wellington, Somerset) is a British journalist for BBC News. He generally presents news programmes on BBC World News. He is usually a relief presenter and he is probably most recognisable for presenting the BBC's live coverage from Chile during events surrounding the Copiapó mining accident and anchoring the BBC's live daytime coverage during the early days of the Cairo January 2011 Egyptian revolution. He is also the main presenter of BBC World News America.

Willcox was educated at Taunton School in Somerset, and St Chad's College, Durham University where he studied Spanish. Wilcox was a member of the British Youth Orchestra, playing the trumpet.

Willcox started in newspaper journalism, working for Mirror Group Newspapers and Fleet Street News Agency).

As a broadcast journalist, Willcox worked for ITN News for many years as a presenter and correspondent. He was the network's Arts and Media Correspondent, and after joining the news team presented the networks live reports from New York City during the 11 September terrorist attacks.

Since joining the BBC, Willcox has been an anchor on the BBC's news channels and used to present bulletins at weekends on BBC One. He served as regular Friday presenter on World News Today on BBC Four, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

In September 2010, Willcox travelled to Chile to report for BBC News on the attempts to rescue the miners trapped underground after the Copiapó mining accident. In October 2010 he did extensive live coverage of the operation to bring the trapped miners back to the surface, and interviewed Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. He is to play himself in a film about the Copiapó mining accident and began filming in February 2014.

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