Sir Trevor McDonald OBE Presenter, Tonight, ITV Sir Trevor McDonald currently presents ITV’s biweekly flagship current affairs show, Tonight. Until December 2005 he was the anchor for the ITV News at 22.30.Trevor presented the flagship evening news bulletin for ITV from 1990, first as co-presenter and, from 1992, as sole presenter. He has received more awards than any other news broadcaster in Britain. In September 2003, he won the National TV Awards prize for outstanding commitment to television - presented by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Other honours include the Richard Dimbleby Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television from BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts), one of the most important honours they bestow (May 1999) He was named Newscaster of the Year three times (1993 1997, 1999) by the prestigious TRIC (Television & Radio industries Club).In March 1998, he was honoured by the Royal Television Society with a Gold Medal, awarded for his outstanding contribution to television news. He regularly tops polls for the most authoritative and trustworthy newsreader.

Trevor McDonald’s career with ITN started in 1980, when he was appointed diplomatic correspondent, reporting from the Middle East and the United States, and on the European Community negotiations in Brussels, Luxembourg, Rome and Strasbourg. He took the title of diplomatic correspondent to Channel 4 News in 1982, becoming diplomatic editor of the programme in September 1987.In 1989 he was one of two presenters of the News at 17 40 on ITV and also presented Channel 4 News and ITN’s weekend programmes on ITV. Trevor has covered American presidential conventions and elections and reported from India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Uganda, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. He reported on East-West Summit meetings from Moscow and Washington, and his coverage of the Philippine elections in 1985 won a Bafta Award for Channel 4 News.I In February 1990, after several earlier visits to southern Africa, Trevor McDonald went back to Johannesburg to report on Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and to carry out the first British television interview with him for ITN. He returned there in April 1994 to present News at Ten from South Africa during its first elections. Trevor again travelled to the country in the spring of 1995, when he presented the opening and closing ceremonies of the Rugby World Cup for ITV. In November 1990, just prior to the Gulf War, Trevor interviewed Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The interview was broadcast around the world. In May of 1992 he compiled a series of reports on the drought in Southern Africa for News at Ten, as well as co-presenting the programme from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In 1993 he interviewed President Clinton and General Colin Powell in the US, Nelson Mandela and Chief Buthelezi in South Africa and Asil Nadir in northern Cyprus. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for 1992, and was awarded a knighthood in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 1999. In February 2005 he was presented with the Judges’ Award by the Royal Television Society.