Stephen Cole

Stephen Cole (born 29 March 1956 in Hereford) is a senior presenter for Al Jazeera English. Previously, he worked for the BBC.
Broadcasting career
 

BBC
He was a former presenter of the BBC World programme Click Online from 2000–2005 and a regular newsreader on BBC World. During the strike action by BBC technical staff and journalists on the 23 May 2005, he was the stand-in presenter of BBC News coverage including presenting the Six O'Clock News and Ten O'Clock News bulletins on BBC One and BBC News 24. The bulletins surprisingly drew in more viewers than usual and led him to become known in the industry as the "Peter Pan of television".
 

Other Broadcasters
Stephen is best known for launching Sky News in 1989 and also CNN international in their new facility in Atlanta, Georgia in 1995. He had previously worked for Anglia Television's About Anglia, ITN and Sky News. He started as an anchor with BSkyB in 1989, moving to CNN in Atlanta, Georgia.

Al Jazeera
On 2 December 2005, he announced that he would be joining the Al Jazeera English news network. He is currently based in Doha, Qatar where Al Jazeera's main broadcasting operations are located.
Non-Al Jazeera Activities Stephen is now the owner of his own firm, Cole Productions and is chairman of the Institute of Diplomacy and Business, an organisation he founded in 2011. He is a member of BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts and is a regular judge at the Royal Television Society News Awards. In 2012 he was appointed to the board of the Premiership Rugby Club London Welsh.

Personal life
Cole's main interests outside of the work space are rugby, tennis and films. He is married to Anne-Marie Cole, a BBC Radio 4 producer, who works for Above the Title Productions and Testbed Productions. He has three sons named Dominic, Daniel and Richard.