Mike Embley
Michael Kenneth Embley (born 25 May 1955) is an English broadcast journalist, best known as a presenter for BBC World News, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC. He currently presents overnight Tuesday-Friday on BBC World News, BBC One and the BBC News Channel. Early life. Embley was born in Sutton, Surrey. Before joining the BBC, Embley began his career training as a newspaper journalist with Thomson daily papers in Wales, on the South Wales Echo and the Western Mail. BBC career. He began broadcasting in 1983, working for BBC Wales' "Wales  Today", followed by the consumer affairs programme "Watchdog" in 1987, and "Public Eye" in 1989. Whilst working on "Public Eye", he was the first British reporter to reach San Francisco to report on the earthquake. Embley later joined ITN's Channel 4 News to work as a producer and reporter, before returning to the BBC as a reporter for the flagship One O'Clock News, Six O'Clock News and Nine O'Clock News bulletins. During this time, Embley also worked as a series presenter for "Nature" on BBC Two and made two films for "Panorama". Embley joined BBC World in 1995, and  remained there for two years until he became the main presenter of "Newsroom South East", the BBC's regional news programme for London and the South East of England. After the programme was replaced by two separate regional bulletins ("BBC London" and "South East Today") in 2001, Embley rejoined BBC World as a presenter. Since then, he has also presented on the domestic BBC News Channel and carried out one-on-one interviews for the BBC programme "HARDtalk", as well as reporting several series for the radio station BBC World Service. Retired 14 April 2021