Simon McCoy: Biography and Images

Simon McCoy currently presents the 8.30-11am slot on the BBC News Channel each weekday morning with Carrie Gracie.

Simon also occasionally appears on weekend bulletins on BBC One and has also presented Breakfast.

Simon’s career started at the Fleet Street News Agency but he soon found his way into Television in a career which has lasted over 20 years. He worked as Thames TV before joining Sky News at its launch in 1988. There he produced Sunrise before reporting across a range of topics. Simon became the channel’s Royal Correspondent in 1991. Following this five year stint, Simon decided to move into the studio and took a job presenting the channel’s early morning strand Sunrise. Simon also presented the channel’s Tonight programme and co-presented live from Basra and Kuwait coverage of the Iraq War in 2003.

Simon is divorced and has one son.