Norman Rees

Norman Charles Rees (2 March 1939 – 14 June 2023) was a Welsh television journalist. He began his career as a junior reporter for the Western Mail newspaper, remaining there for seven years before moving into television with Television Wales and the West, later Harlech Television. Rees joined Independent Television News (ITN) in London as a news editor in 1967, switching to reporting in 1972 and became ITN's Washington correspondent in 1977. He returned to London in 1981 and was appointed ITN's chief assistant editor three years later. Rees returned to reporting in 1991 and retired in 1999.

Early life Rees was born on 2 March 1939 in Splott, Cardiff, Wales. He was the son of the newspaper packer Daniel Rees and his wife Maisel . Rees attended Cantonian High School. He was retained when TWW lost the franchise to Harlech Television (HTV). he began working as a news editor for Independent Television News (ITN) in London in 1968. the October 1974 United Kingdom general election, the Watergate scandal in 1974, eliciting the following response from President Richard Nixon "I screwed it up and paid the price", the murder of John Lennon in New York in 1980, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 and the maiden launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia. In 1982, Rees covered the Falklands War for three months from the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. He broadcast a seven-minute piece detailing some of the highlights of News at Ten 's history for the last bulletin of the original iteration of the programme in 1999, the year in which he retired. Rees was editor of the membership magazine of the Reading Male Voice Choir, of which he was a member. His house was twice burgled, first in October 1991 and again in February 1995. Rees died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading on 14 June 2023 after a brief illness.