Education
Samuels was educated at The King"s School, an independent school in Chester in Cheshire, and later studied at Loughborough University and then Cardiff University, where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism.
Samuels was educated at The King"s School, an independent school in Chester in Cheshire, and later studied at Loughborough University and then Cardiff University, where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism.
He has been based in Sydney since 2011. Previously, Samuels was chief correspondent on Five News and an occasional presenter. He was a reporter for Sky News and before that, a journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he presented and reported for British Broadcasting Corporation Look East and British Broadcasting Corporation Spotlight.
He began his broadcasting career as a British Broadcasting Corporation trainee at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Cornwall.
As Sky News Chief Correspondent, Samuels has covered the main domestic and international stories. In the last few years he has reported from Iraq, covered the crisis in Zimbabwe, broadcast from the Falkland Islands, was in the United States for the recent election and covered the conflicts between Israel and Gaza, and Israel and Lebanon.
At Sky News he presented the Michael Jackson trial reconstructions which also aired on Sky One.