Colin Brazier

In 2016 he won an International Emmy Award and was nominated for a BAFTA for his coverage of the European migrant crisis. The Emmy award judges specifically cited his live anchoring when rioting broke out on the Serbian/Hungarian border.

In 2015 he was long-listed in the RTS Awards Presenter of the Year category for his anchoring of the Tunisian terror attacks and the Nepal earthquake.

In 2014 he was Sky's sole nominee in the Royal Television Society Awards Presenter of the Year category for his work in Nairobi during the Westgate shopping mall attack and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

In July 2014, following the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, Brazier was filmed tampering with the contents of a victim's luggage. Widespread media criticism and calls for Brazier's resignation ensued. As of 21 July, 110 complaints about Brazier's behaviour had been submitted to Ofcom. In an article published in The Guardian on 22 July 2014, Brazier apologised, admitted that his actions were "a serious error of judgment".

Brazier's 2013 book Sticking Up For Siblings, was based on his experiences as a father of six young children. The book, which encourages parents to reconsider the merits of larger families, was debated on the BBC Today programme, Radio 5 Live, ITV Daybreak and BBC Breakfast.

He has made several appearances as a newsreader in movies, including The Bourne Legacy in 2012.

In 2009, Brazier conducted one of the final interviews given by the dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Brazier wrote an article for the New Statesman discussing his experiences of meeting the dictator at his compound in Libya.

His industry awards include a gold medal from the New York TV awards, for his reporting from Afghanistan. The first British journalist to enter Iraq with coalition troops during the 2003 invasion, Brazier's documentary, Brothers in Baghdad, was later shortlisted at the 48th Monte-Carlo Television Festival. He was the first journalist to enter Southern Lebanon with Israeli forces in 2006.

In 1999, Brazier married Joanna Roughton, at the time Reuters Asia editor and then Sky's head of foreign news until 2002, with whom he had 6 children. In 2017, Brazier and his family were featured on Sky News talking about Sky's Ocean Rescue campaign. Roughton passed away from breast cancer in July 2018, aged 55.

Brazier worked at the BBC, then ITV. He joined Sky News in 1997. His postings at Sky have included politics, the Royal Family and several foreign postings, in addition to anchoring studio coverage.

Colin Brazier (born 28 March 1968) is a British journalist and presenter for Sky News, having worked there since 1997. He has presented Sky News Today on the channel alongside Jayne Secker since September 2014, but he has presented a number of other programmes on the channel. Between 2005 and 2011, Brazier presented Saturday Live on the channel.