Among the UK’s most experienced news broadcasters, Geoff Meade has been a front-line correspondent specialising in defence and international unrest for almost thirty years.
Conflicts covered include Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Middle-East and both Gulf wars. He also reported the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.
He was Sky News’s longest-serving Moscow Correspondent, covering the Chechen War and Russia’s economic turmoil.
The first British TV journalist into Afghanistan after 9-11, he survived both Taliban attack and near-miss air strike to score a world exclusive reporting the launch of the battle to dislodge the Taliban from Kabul.
In eight years as Defence Correspondent for Sky News, he returned to Afghanistan more than a dozen times, closely following and analysing growing British military involvement.
Elsewhere on the defence beat, he was the first TV journalist to report at supersonic speed from the cockpit of an RAF Typhoon. The Royal Navy also awarded him honorary submariner’s “dolphins” for an exclusive series aboard the nuclear hunter-killer HMS Trenchant.
Said Geoff: “Years spent reporting the military have given me the utmost respect for the way they go about their business. “
“Returning to cover the UK mission in Afghanistan for BFBS presented me with the yet greater privilege of spending longer with forces and gaining even deeper understanding of the challenges they face.”
Most recently Geoff worked with BFBS on a series of live broadcasts in Germany from where British Forces News broadcast three special edition programmes. He contributed a series of in-depth reports focusing on the challenges ahead for the drawdown of British Forces Germany.
He was recently elected to Life Membership of the NUJ and to the Independent Defence Media Association. More details at www.themeade-ia.co.uk.
Geoff can be seen in this image standing behind the camera on the tripod with other BFBS journalists and crew in Afghanistan.
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