Mikey Kay Correspondent Tape

A Welshman based in Paris, having spent 6 years in Brooklyn, I specialize in multi-media journalism, hosting & filmmaking in conflict and risk-on zones, with 25 years experience in terrorism, National Security apparatus & aviation. Signing part time with ABC News in 2017, I cover foreign stories across Europe & the Middle East, including West Mosul for a 2-part documentary for the History Channel (The New Age of Terror), and Antakya in Turkey for ABC, where I was the first Western journalist to interview Abdel Hamed Youseff, the man that lost his two nine-month old twins in the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria.

In the Summer of 2017, I hosted a new show for History Channel on the Knights Templar, a non-scripted investigation to be paired with History’s new scripted drama, Knightfall, airing Jan 31st 2018. I’m also Good Morning Britain’s Security Correspondent/Analyst (U.K ITV breakfast show).

Previously an analyst on CNN; a producer/ host of Top of the World and YOLO, both entertainment series for Travel Channel; and a producer/host for Saving Heroes; Michael’s production company also produces, shoots and edits short & long form docs across news and branded content for companies such as Dow Jones, Vogue, and Yale New Haven Hospital.

Michael spent the fall of 2013 on assignment in Beirut, hosting, directing and producing a series of reports that aired on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. During his time in Lebanon, he travelled to Tripoli, Arsal, and Mleeta, meeting with Free Syrian Army militia, mujahideen fighters, radical sheikhs and members of Hezbollah. In Sept 2014, Michael travelled to Kyrgyzstan, reporting on radical Islam, anti-gay propaganda legislation and drugs trafficking.

Michael spent 20 years as an assault helicopter pilot and strategic planner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, serving operational flying tours in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Iraq, as well as strategy and diplomacy tours in Afghanistan, Sumatra (post tsunami), India and Africa. He quickly rose to Senior Officer status and spent his final years before retirement as a military advisor within the UK’s Ministry of Defense.