Michael John Brunson OBE (born 12 August 1940, in Norwich) is a British broadcasting political journalist of over thirty years' standing.
Brunson was educated at Bedford School, a boarding independent school for boys, in the county town of Bedford in Bedfordshire, and read Theology at The Queen's College at the University of Oxford.
He joined ITN in 1968 and in 1971 covered the Bangladesh Liberation War and wrote a testimony about the death, starvation and suffering of refugees in West Bengal.
In 1973, Brunson became ITN Washington Correspondent, where he remained until 1977, covering Watergate and the 1976 US presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
He was ITN Diplomatic Editor from 1978 to 1986, attending every major international summit meeting.