Awards & Winners

Michael Buerk

Date of Birth 18-February-1946
Place of Birth Solihull
(United Kingdom, West Midlands)
Nationality England
Also know as Michael Duncan Buerk
Profession Journalist, Presenter
Michael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader. His reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984 inspired the Band Aid charity record and subsequently, the Live Aid concert.

Awards by Michael Buerk

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Buerk.

1985


British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage
Honored for : BBC Nine O'Clock News
(Coverage of the Ethiopian famine)

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage BBC Nine O'Clock News
Coverage of the Ethiopian famine