Colin Brazier

Who is Colin Brazier?

Colin Brazier, is a journalist with the Sky News channel.

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 Monte Carlo television festival. He was the first journalist to enter Southern Lebanon with Israeli forces in 2006.

In the 2014 Royal Television Society Awards he was Sky’s nominee in the presenter of the year category.

He has interviewed many senior statesmen and women. In Libya, he conducted one of the final interviews given by the dictator Colonel Gadaffi.

A former newspaper reporter and foreign correspondent, Brazier has written extensively about family life. In 2013 his book Sticking Up For Siblings, based on his experiences as a father of six young children, won positive reviews in publications ranging from The Daily Telegraph to the Guardian.

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.

At university Brazier took a first in English literature, but rather than taking a commission as an infantry officer with the Green Howards regiment, he became, instead, a journalist at the Yorkshire Post. He latterly worked at the Observer, before moving to the BBC, then ITV, joining Sky in 1997. There his beats have included politics, the royals and several foreign postings.