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Jeremy Thompson

Jeremy Thompson currently anchors Live at Five with Jeremy Thompson. One of Britain’s most experienced television newsmen, Jeremy has been a correspondent for the BBC, ITN and Sky News, covering many of the major news­ ­­­­­­­­­events of our time, reporting from nearly 100 countries around ­­­­­­­­­­the globe and running foreign bureaux in Asia, Africa and the USA.

Among the awards received for his work are an Emmy from the US Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, three Gold Medals for Best News Reporter from the New York TV Festival, and the Royal Television Society award for Sky’s coverage of the Kosovo conflict. He was named RTS Presenter of the Year in 2006.

As a foreign correspondent, Jeremy has covered over a dozen wars and civil conflicts. In 1999, he was the first TV newsman to broadcast live as British peacekeeping forces rolled into Kosovo.

In 2003, Jeremy anchored Sky News’ coverage of the second Gulf War from Iraq, and was the first anchor to present from inside Baghdad. He travelled as a roving reporter and as well as presenting Live at Five each evening, secured a number of exclusives, including reporting from the villa of so-called ‘Chemical Ali’.

Since moving back to London as a presenter in 1998, Jeremy has been involved in many of Sky News’ biggest live news events, anchoring both from the studio and out in the field. They include
the Liberation of Kosovo in 1999, 9/11, the Soham murders, as  well as the second Gulf War in 2003, the Madrid Train Bombing, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Israel Lebanon conflict and the death of Pope John Paul II. In 2007 Jeremy anchored live coverage from Praia de Luz in the days following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.  He also reported from Kingston, Jamaica on the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, a man he knew personally for more than 25 years. In 2008 Jeremy covered the 2008 Beijing Olympics and followed Obama’s historic election. He also covered Obama's inauguration in January 2009.