Declan Harvey | |
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Born | |
Education | Scoil Colmcille |
Alma mater | St Eunan's College Rose Bruford College London College of Communication |
Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
Known for | BBC Newsline Evening Extra Radio 1 Newsbeat LBC Radio |
Declan Harvey (born 14 September 1983) is a journalist and presenter with BBC News. He anchors the BBC's flagship nightly television news programme in Northern Ireland, BBC Newsline , and the daily radio drive time news programme, Evening Extra , on BBC Radio Ulster.
Harvey is a classically trained actor, and holds a first-class honours degree in acting from Rose Bruford College. [1] He worked for several years as a professional actor [2] on stage and television, and voice-over artist. He had many roles on stage and on television. [3] He was arrested on The Bill . [3]
Harvey holds an MA in Theatre Practices, specialising in voice. He has worked as a professional voice and communications coach.
Harvey qualified from the London College of Communication [4] as a broadcast journalist in 2010. During his training, he volunteered at OnFM 101.4, a community radio station based in Hammersmith, where he presented a weekend magazine programme, LiveWires, with Storm Huntley.
Harvey joined the Global radio group in 2010, as a reporter working across LBC, Classic FM, Capital FM and Heart. He was also a relief presenter on the rolling news station LBC News.
He became the full-time reporter for the award-winning Nick Ferrari at Breakfast programme. During his time at Global, Harvey was the lead correspondent covering the July 7th London Bombings Inquests, [5] the preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics, which were held in London, and the Stephen Lawrence murder trial in 2011 – 2012. [6]
He was a contributor to Dale&Co, the political column website by Iain Dale.
In 2012, Harvey joined Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1, later becoming a political reporter, [7] covering two UK general elections, and the 2016 US presidential election, as well as that year's Brexit referendum.
In 2017, he became a frequent relief presenter on Newsday for the BBC World Service. Harvey fronted BBC Minute for a short time.
He relocated to Northern Ireland in 2017, becoming a news reporter for BBC News NI across radio and television. In 2020, it was announced that he would become a full-time presenter of Evening Extra , alongside Tara Mills. [8] [9] [10] The two would later be joined by Richard Morgan on a full-time basis. [9]
Throughout 2021, Harvey co-created and co-hosted the BBC podcast Year '21 , a 'week-by-week' telling of how Northern Ireland was created, exactly 100 years previous. The podcast received critical acclaim [11] and a number of international awards [12] and nominations. In 2023, the team produced a follow-up series, Year '98 The Making of the Good Friday Agreement.
In December 2021, the BBC announced [13] that Harvey would become a main anchor of its flagship television news programme, BBC Newsline . He rotates his presenting duties between TV and radio.
Year | Category | Awards | Programme/Station | |
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2011 | Young Journalist of the Year | IRN Sky News Awards [14] | LBC | Won |
2014 | National Radio Journalist of the Year | Sony Radio Awards [4] | BBC Newsbeat | Finalist |
2019 | News Reporter of the Year | IMRO Irish Radio Awards [15] | BBC News NI | Gold |
2019 | Best Documentary | New York Festivals Radio Awards [16] | Did a Serial Killer Murder My Sister? | Bronze |
2021 | Best Podcast | New York Festivals Radio Awards [17] | Year '21 | Finalist |
2021 | Best News Programme | IMRO Irish Radio Awards [18] | Evening Extra | Silver |
2022 | Best History Podcast | New York Festivals Radio Awards [12] | Year '21 | Silver |
2022 | News Broadcaster of the Year | IMRO Irish Radio Awards [19] | BBC News NI | Gold |
2023 | News Broadcaster of the Year | IMRO Irish Radio Awards | BBC News NI | Gold |
He was born in, and grew up in, Letterkenny.
As a youth, Harvey attended Scoil Colmcille and St Eunan's College for his education. [20] [21] As a child, he was a member of Rainbow Theatre Group. [22] Harvey began working at Highland Radio as a summer job when he was 15, answering phones. [3] He moved to England to attend drama school aged 19.
Here's a picture of Declan back in the day honing his acting skills while a student at St Eunan's College in Letterkenny.