Rob McBride began his journalism career, reporting from the Falkland Islands two years after the end of the 1982 war in the South Atlantic.  He landed a job on the tiny Penguin News weekly paper and in the evenings would present the news on Falklands radio.  It was from Port Stanley that he got his first freelance bylines for UK media with Independent Radio News and The Sunday Times.  And it began a career that has come to be characterized by reporting from faraway places.

After working in the UK for commercial radio and television in Manchester and London, he left UK again in 1992 and moved to Hong Kong.  For several years he worked for a leading news agency serving many international broadcasters including Channel-9 of Australia, BBC, Sky and ITN.

Then, in 2000, he embraced the new digital technology to become one of the pioneers of video journalism.  Mastering camera work and field editing, he was among the first VJ’s to put together the comprehensive digital news gathering kit and has produced the essential training manual for newcomers to video journalism.

He continues to go on lone assignment for companies as diverse as Al Jazeera English, PBS network of the US and UN Television.

As a versatile and creative story-teller, he is equally adept at the hard news story as the soft feature.