1. Bill Neely was born on 21 May 1959 and is an Irish journalist.
33 Facts About Bill Neely
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Bill Neely was the Chief Global Correspondent for NBC News from 2014 to 2021.
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Bill Neely was named the Queen's University Graduate of the Year in 2021 for his work as a broadcaster.
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Bill Neely began his career with BBC Northern Ireland in 1981, covering the violence there for six years before joining the BBC in London in 1987.
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Bill Neely was hired by Sky News in 1989 to help launch the channel.
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Bill Neely has won four BAFTA awards for news coverage, including an unprecedented three consecutive awards, an Emmy award, a Monte Carlo Golden Nymph award, a Peabody prize, an Edward R Murrow award, and numerous other nominations and awards for international news reporting over the past four decades, including eight Emmy nominations for NBC News.
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Bill Neely has won four Royal Television Society awards, including the International News Award for coverage of the Haiti earthquake.
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Bill Neely has twice been nominated for Broadcasting Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club, winning in 2011.
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Bill Neely was Washington correspondent and US Bureau Chief for six years, covering two Presidential elections, the Atlanta Olympics and Oklahoma City bombing, the OJ Simpson trial, the Waco siege as well as many major stories across North and South America and the Caribbean.
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Bill Neely has reported regularly from the Middle East and the United States.
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Bill Neely has covered five US Presidential election campaigns since 1992.
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Bill Neely covered the 2005 Pakistan earthquake for which ITV News won a Royal Television Society award and, in the same year, the devastating floods in New Orleans and the Asian tsunami.
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Bill Neely was nominated for a BAFTA for coverage of the Beslan siege.
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Bill Neely was part of the ITV News team whose reports from the Asian tsunami won the 2005 BAFTA award for news.
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Bill Neely covered the campaign of Tony Blair in the 1997 United Kingdom general election and David Cameron in the 2010 general election.
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Bill Neely reported on the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Iranian 'Green Revolution' of 2008, as well as terror attacks in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Israel and across Europe.
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Bill Neely reported regularly on the "Arab Spring", firstly from Egypt, then Libya, and during more than a dozen visits to Syria; frontline dispatches that have been broadcast around the world.
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Bill Neely won the 2011 BAFTA for his reporting of the killings in Cumbria in July 2010; his third BAFTA success in three years.
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Bill Neely was twice nominated as Broadcasting Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club, winning the award in 2011.
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In 2011, Bill Neely took part in a documentary called As Others See Us which looked back on his reporting of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Bill Neely highlighted reporting on the Droppin Well bombing in Ballykelly.
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Bill Neely was joined by Peter Taylor, Kate Adie and Martin Bell.
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On 25 November 2013, it was announced that Bill Neely would be joining NBC News.
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In 2014, Bill Neely reported on the Syrian and Iraq wars, the Russian invasion of Crimea, the mystery of the missing Malaysian plane MH370, the World Cup in Brazil and the war in Gaza.
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Bill Neely reported less than seventy yards from the ISIS front line in Northern Iraq.
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Bill Neely was part of the Nightly News team that won the Edward R Murrow Award for reports after the Paris attacks of January 2015.
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Bill Neely interviewed President Assad of Syria in July 2016 and covered the fall of Aleppo from the city in December 2016.
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Bill Neely received eight Emmy nominations at NBC, including for work on the Brussels terror attacks in 2016 and in the Best Interview category for his exclusive interview with Syria's President Assad.
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Bill Neely recorded a TedX talk in 2022, asking if 'Mainstream Media' are 'Enemies of the People'.
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Bill Neely has worked for, among others, Sky News, ITV News and Feature Story News, in the US, South Africa, India, Pakistan and across the UK.
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Bill Neely has completed eleven London marathons, most recently in 2021 with a time of 3.12.25 and with a best time of 3.09.48 in the 2011 event.
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Bill Neely competes in Triathlons and regularly takes part in Richmond Park's Parkrun.
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Bill Neely has been an active supporter of Leeds United since 1967.