journalist television presenter
Myrie was born on 25 August 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, to Jamaican immigrant parents. His mother was a seamstress who later worked for Mary Quant, whilst his father a factory worker making car batteries. His parents later divorced, and his father returned on retirement to Jamaica.
Myrie was educated at Hayward Grammar School in Bolton, and the University of Sussex, graduating in 1985 with a law degree.
Myrie joined the British Broadcasting Corporation on the corporation"s graduate journalist programme. His first assignment was as a reporter for Radio Bristol in 1988, returning to the British Broadcasting Corporation after a year with Independent Radio News. He then reported for Points West, and latterly British Broadcasting Corporation Television and Radio News.
In 1996, he became a British Broadcasting Corporation foreign correspondent, and has since reported from more than 50 countries.
He initially became the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Tokyo correspondent, and then the Los Angeles correspondent 1997-1999. He was appointed a British Broadcasting Corporation Asia Correspondent in 2002 and was Paris correspondent 2006-2007.
His career has encompassed major stories such as the impeachment of United States. President Bill Clinton, and wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was awarded the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents for his reporting of ethnic violence on the island of Borneo.
After latterly serving as Europe correspondent based in Brussels, he was appointed a presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation News channel in April 2009, replacing the retired Chris Lowe.
Since joining British Broadcasting Corporation News, Myrie has presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Weekend News, weekend editions British Broadcasting Corporation News at Ten and British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast, both on British Broadcasting Corporation One. In June 2014 he began presenting weekday bulletins on British Broadcasting Corporation One. In September 2010, Myrie broke the story that ETA had declared a unilateral ceasefire after meeting an ETA operative in Paris who handed over a tape of the organisation"s leaders making the declaration.
He currently presents the 18:30 - 00:00 slot, Monday to Thursday, on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel.
During the 2015 General Election he was the main presenter of Election Tonight at 19:30 and 21:30. Myrie has reported extensively from Katmandhu on the earthquake that struck the city on 25 April 2015, including the rescues of two Nepali citizens who were found alive under two collapsed buildings on 30 April 2015.
