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Michael John Brunson OBE (born 12 August 1940, in
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) is a British broadcasting political journalist of over thirty years' standing. He is a former Political Editor, Diplomatic Editor and Washington Correspondent of
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, and an occasional ITN newscaster.


Early life

Brunson was born on 12 August 1940 in the city of
Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...
in
Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
. It was in Norfolk that Brunson grew up a in pub and learnt the pub trade.


Education

Brunson was educated at Bedford School, a boarding independent school for boys, in the county town of
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in
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, and read
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at The Queen's College at the
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.


Life and career

Brunson began his broadcasting career at the
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. He joined ITN in 1968 and in 1971 covered the Bangladesh Liberation War and wrote a testimony about the death, starvation and suffering of refugees in West Bengal. In 1973, Brunson became ITN
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, where he remained until 1977, covering Watergate and the 1976 US presidential election between
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and Gerald Ford. He was ITN Diplomatic Editor from 1978 to 1986, attending every major international summit meeting. In 1986, Brunson became ITN Political Editor, a role for which he is perhaps best known, and as an occasional ITN newscaster on the-then News at 5:45 and News at Ten. Brunson retired from ITN in March 2000 after 32 years' service with ITN. Since then, he has regularly appeared as a political commentator on Sky News, GMTV and elsewhere. He was appointed OBE in 2000 and lives in Letheringsett in Norfolk. Brunson's autobiography, ''A Ringside Seat'', was published in 2000.


Publications

* ''A Ringside Seat'' (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 2000)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brunson, Michael 1940 births Living people Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford British political journalists Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Bedford School Journalists from Norwich People from Letheringsett with Glandford