Martin Bashir

Martin Bashir is an award-winning journalist who co-anchors Nightline from ABC News and is also a correspondent on 20/20. He is best known for conducting a series of exclusive interviews and making ground-breaking, landmark documentaries.

Since joining ABC News in September 2004, he has made a number of critically acclaimed documentaries, on subjects ranging from steroid abuse by Olympic athletes, to the 500^th anniversary of the Sistine Chapel, to physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. In his 6 years at ABC, he's also made a number of contributions to Nightline, including an exclusive interview with legendary baseball player Jose Canseco, who confessed to supplying performance-enhancing drugs to a number of fellow professionals.

In 2003 his documentary Living with Michael Jackson featured exclusive and extraordinary access to one of the biggest stars of the modern musical world and was broadcast in over 60 international territories. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award (the UK equivalent of an Oscar). This programme was followed by Who Wants to be a Millionaire: A Major Fraud; a film about Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana who were found guilty of cheating their way to the top prize on the British version of this international quiz show. It achieved the biggest audience for any factual programme in the UK since 1997 and was, again, broadcast around the world.

In addition, he has a won a number of other awards for his work including three BAFTA nominations, five Royal Television Society Awards and two Broadcasting Press Guild awards and has collected a BAFTA award for his now-historic interview with the late Princess Diana, which remains her only television interview. He has now won the RTS' Programme of the Year Award an unprecedented three times in four years.

Born in 1963, he completed a first degree in English and Post-graduate research at Kings College in London before starting work as a journalist in 1986. He is married with three children, has been a keen sportsman and plays the electric bass. He supports the work of Charley's Fund, a charitable organization which is seeking to find a cure for Muscular Dystrophy (he had a brother who died from the condition).