Jonathan Samuels is [Sky News]' Australia Correspondent. Previously he was Chief Correspondent on Five News

Five News

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, and an occasional presenter. He was previously a reporter for Sky News

Sky News

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 and before that, a journalist with the BBC

BBC

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 where he presented and reported for BBC Look East and BBC Spotlight. He began his broadcasting career as a BBC trainee at BBC Radio Cornwall

BBC Radio Cornwall

BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC Local Radio service for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom. It broadcasts from its studios on Phoenix Wharf in Truro on 95.2 in the east, 96.0 on the Isles of Scilly and 103.9 in the west MHz FM, as well as on DAB.Andrew George, MP for St Ives, has...

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Jonathan attended the King's School, Chester and later studied at Loughborough University

Loughborough University

Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

 and then Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

, where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism

Broadcast journalism

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As Chief Correspondent, Samuels covers the main domestic and international stories. In the last few years he has reported from Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, covered the crisis in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

, broadcast from the Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands

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, was in the United States

United States

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 for the recent election and covered the conflicts between Israel and Gaza, and Israel and Lebanon. At Sky News he presented the Michael Jackson trial reconstructions which also aired on Sky One.