Mike Lee is an Emmy and Peabody award winning former U.S. TV network correspondent. Mike covered the world for 47 years for ABC (see ABC News Bio), CBS, and other news organizations. Mike Lee has reported from over 40 nations. His global news reporting includes virtually every major news story from Europe, Russia, Middle East, and Africa. Mike has produced human interest feature profiles of people and issues in dozens of locations from the Artic Circle to the South Pacific.
Mike pioneered the one person coverage at ABC News with ‘Mike’s Road To Anywhere,’ Peter Jennings described Mike’s ‘Road’ series as the best way to practice journalism. (Watch below)
Mike Lee’s first ‘Road to Anywhere’ video was the story of the lost natives of Bikini Island, who had been removed from their homeland by the U.S. military for the first Hydrogen bomb tests. They have been homeless ever since. (Watch below)
Mike ‘Road To Anywhere’ became model for reaching the far corners of the earth and bringing ABC audiences content they would not normally see because it would be too costly to send big teams. Here are some ‘Road to Anywhere’ highlights.
Mike Lee offers a unique set of skills and experience. Mike has developed the empathy needed to tell anyone’s story, but also the critical instinct to tell fact from smoke. Mr. Lee knows the value of time because he has met thousands of unforgivable deadlines. Mike is a TV talent who can speak live to millions of people and regard them as one friend. Mike has thrived for four decades in the high pressure, sometimes dangerous world of TV news because he learned how to come up with stories audiences want to see, see them through, and deliver them when needed.
Mike Lee has retired as an ABC News staff correspondent, but remains a freelance contributor to ABC News.
1964-65 – Reporter, KHFI TV, Austin
1966-68 – Reporter, WFAA TV News, Dallas
1975 – 1977 – CBS News Middle East Correspondent. Mike received the U.S. Overseas Press Club Award for his coverage of the Civil War in Lebanon. He also received the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for his reporting in Lebanon.
1977-1980 CBS News London Correspondent Mike covered the conflict in Northern Ireland, the British Royal Family, and numerous other stories.
1980 – 2006 ABC News Correspondent (London based, world travelled) Mike Lee was the first network tv news correspondent to travel extensively in Saudi Arabia. He spent an unprecedented six weeks in the Kingdom, filming urban and desert life. His reporting from Saudi Arabia resulted in a three part series on ‘World News Tonight,’ plus stories for ‘Nightline’ and ’20/20.’
