Trevor McDonald

Sir Trevor Lawson McDonald (born George McDonald; 16 August 1939) is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with Independent Television News (ITN).

McDonald began his career working as a print and broadcast journalist for Naparima College's Blue Circle Network. He began his professional career with Radio Trinidad as a reporter and worked as a news reader and sports journalist for Trinidad Television. McDonald was employed by BBC Radio in 1969 as a producer, based in London but still broadcasting to the Caribbean. In 1973, he began his long association with ITN as a general reporter and was also ITN's first black reporter. McDonald was promoted in 1992 as the sole presenter of News at Ten and became a well-known face on British television screens. He was the presenter of the current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald and a series of documentaries for ITV.

McDonald was knighted in 1999 for his services to journalism and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Greater London in 2006. He is a recipient of the National Television Award for Special Recognition and the BAFTA Fellowship. In 2006, the British public ranked McDonald number 31 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.^[1]