Profile: Alastair Stewart OBE
06 Jan 09
Alastair Stewart presents a range of programmes for ITV News including The ITV Lunchtime News, The news at Ten-Thirty and ITV’s flagship London news and features programme London Tonight. He also presents Police Camera Action! and Ask Ken (formerly the Carlton Debates), the regular Q&A programme with London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone. Earlier in 2007 he presented The Moral of the Story for the ITV network.
Alastair returned as an anchor on the ITV News Channel for the 2003 Iraq War, the channel’s Local Government Elections coverage and a special programme on the European Single Currency. He went on to present his own news and interview strand Live with Alastair for which he won the Royal Television Society's Presenter of the Year Award in 2005.
For eleven years, before the 2004 ITV merger, he presented a range of news and current affairs programmes for Carlton-Granada’s London News Network (LNN). Before joining LNN, he was a presenter of ITN’s News at Ten, a role he resumed in 1991 following a year in the United States as the ITN Washington Correspondent.
He originally joined News at Ten in May 1989 from ITN’s News at 5.40, which he had presented from September 1986. Before that he spent three years as a presenter and reporter with ITN’s Channel Four News and was also the presenter of ITN’s The Parliament Programme for Channel Four. Alastair co-anchored ITV’s network coverage of both the 2005 and 1997 General Elections with Jonathon Dimbleby, the 1992 General Election with Jon Snow; and the 1987 General Election with Sir Alastair Burnet
In 1994, he presented Alastair Stewart's Sunday for BBC Radio 5 before hosting Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme for GMTV which he presented until July 2001.
In 2002, he won The Face of London award from the Royal Television Society and in 2005 the Presenter of the Year award again from the Royal Television Society.
In 2006, he was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his work in broadcasting and for charity.
In 2008, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the University of Bristol.
