Stephen Jessel
Stephen Jessel (9 August 1943 – 7 March 2025) was a British newsreader and reporter who was for many years a BBC correspondent, based between 1977 and 1995 in Paris, Beijing, Brussels, Washington D.C., and again Paris. He had previously worked, after leaving university, for The Times of London as a reporter and education correspondent. Before joining the BBC foreign staff, he worked as reporter and again education correspondent.