Stephen Joseph Samuel Cole (born 29 March 1954) is a British journalist, producer, news anchor and television presenter.

[1] From 1978 to 1989, Cole broke into television news, filing reports for ITN and BBC Nationwide, where he covered the White House Farm murders.

In the year 2000, BBC management approached Cole about creating a new show for the network, offering him a choice between business and Information Technology (IT).

When Al Jazeera launched its English-language service in 2006, along with other British broadcasters like David Frost, Cole was “quickly snapped up”,[6] as senior anchor and news editor, in part due to the exposure he received during the BBC strike.

[7] Cole also reported from the field on meetings of the Group of Seven, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the black market sale of antiquities in Bulgaria.