Mark Webster

Mark Webster is a News Correspondent for ITV News and occasional presenter of the ITV Morning News. He took up this role in 2003 after being Ireland Correspondent for three years.

Previously he was Moscow Correspondent from 1998 to 2000 and prior to that he spent three years as ITN's Business Editor (1995-98), having been Business Correspondent since March 1994. Before that he had spent four years (1990-94) as Political Correspondent, based in ITN's Westminster bureau.

Mark joined the company in September 1982 as a scriptwriter for ITN's Channel 4 News and in 1983 became Industrial Correspondent for ITN programmes on ITV. It was in this capacity that he reported extensively on the miners' strike. In September 1987 he was appointed Northern Correspondent.

Mark was educated at King's School, Worcester and, on leaving, joined the Gloucestershire Echo. After one year on the paper he moved to Paris where he worked as a freelance broadcaster and journalist. On his return to London, Mark joined the London Evening Standard as a leader writer before becoming the Financial Times African correspondent in 1977.

47-year-old Mark lives in Belfast with his partner and baby daughter.