Tim Sebastian

This article is about the English television journalist. For the German footballer, see Tim Sebastian (footballer).

Tim Sebastian
Born (1952-03-13) 13 March 1952 (age 72)
London, England, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
Alma materNew College, Oxford
Cardiff University
Occupations
  • Television journalist
  • novelist
Notable credits
Children1

Tim Sebastian (born 13 March 1952)[1] is an English television journalist and novelist. He is the moderator of Conflict Zone[2] and New Arab Debates[3] on Deutsche Welle. He previously worked for the BBC, where he hosted Doha Debates[4] and was the first presenter of HARDtalk.[5] Sebastian also presented Bloomberg TV's The Outsider, an India-focused debating programme.[6][7]

He won the Richard Dimbleby Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1981,[8] and was twice designated Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year in the United Kingdom — once in 2000 and again in 2001.[1]

  1. ^ a b "The man with all the questions". BBC. 4 July 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Political interviews by Tim Sebastian & Michel Friedman | DW". DW.COM.
  3. ^ Medien, Ahmed (21 October 2011), "Tim Sebastian Launches "New Arab Debates"", tunisia-live.net, Tunisia Live, archived from the original on 31 March 2016, retrieved 20 November 2011
  4. ^ Mendenhall, Preston (22 February 2005), Another revolution in the land of Al-Jazeera, NBC News, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 14 September 2011
  5. ^ "A look ahead..." BBC. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  6. ^ Mendenhall, Preston (25 August 2012), The Outsider, MSNBC
  7. ^ "The Outsider website". Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Television Nominations 1981". BAFTA. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2011.