Jamie anchors the international English language tv news channel CGTN in London. The channel broadcasts to 100 million homes worldwide and has bureau in London, Washington, Nairobi and Beijing. Previously, Jamie Owen was a news anchor at the international news channel TRT World based in Istanbul. He is also the author of five books.

For over 28 years Jamie Owen was one of the BBC’s best-known broadcasters – fronting BBC Wales Today, BBC Radio and countless documentaries. He started his broadcasting career at Radio 3 in London before moving to Radio 4 where he read the news, the shipping forecast and announced The Archers.

Jamie Owen’s achievements are going from strength-to-strength. His documentary ‘The Secret Betrayal’ recently won bronze at the New York Documentary Awards’. It was filmed in Liverpool and tells the story of the forced repatriation of merchant seaman at the end of the Second World War.

This was extraordinary. However, even more amazing, ‘The Secret Betrayal’ won first prize at the 2022 CMG Annual Awards held on the 23rd April, 2023, in the documentary category. There were more than 1,000 entries from CMG’s 47 television channels, and 17 radio channels, what an achievement this is.