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Greg Milam

Greg Milam

Greg is US Correspondent for Sky News based in Washington DC. He covered the historic beginning of Barack Obama's presidency and the death of Michael Jackson, presenting Sky News Live At Five from Los Angeles hours after the star's death. He also covered the Haiti earthquake, reported extensively on the BP oil spill, the Tiger Woods scandal and the shocking story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped and kept prisoner in a California shed for 18 years.

Before moving to Washington, Greg was Sky News Europe Correspondent based in Brussels. From there he covered the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal, the Meredith Kercher case in Italy, the Josef Fritzl and Natascha Kampusch stories in Austria, elections in France and Italy and the showbiz weddings of Tom Cruise and Wayne Rooney.

As a news correspondent based in London, Greg covered Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the Bam earthquake in Iran and reported from the Middle East and Africa. During the Gulf War of 2003, Greg was the embedded correspondent with the Royal Irish Regiment, commanded by Colonel Tim Collins.

He spent a year as the anchor of Sky News Sunrise, anchoring live coverage of the Madrid bombings and school siege at Beslan.

Before Sky, Greg spent four years with Anglia Television becoming a reporter and presenter of the main evening news.

He cut his journalistic teeth at a news agency where he reported news and sport for national newspapers. During this time he became one of the youngest journalists to report from Romania on the aftermath of the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Educated in Basingstoke, Greg spent his summer holidays working on the Basingstoke Gazette. He studied journalism in Portsmouth.

Greg was named as BT News Broadcaster of the Year 2000 and was runner up for the Royal Television Society Young Journalist of the Year 2001.

He once considered giving up journalism in order to join the RAF - a consideration he claims was not prompted by an attack he suffered live on air by an enraged cockerel.

Greg's interests are varied and include football, cricket, books, music and architecture.