Steve Dawson is a reformed Chartered Tax Accountant, who after 10 years of battling the Inland Revenue, devoted his career to what he’d already been doing in his spare time – journalism.
He was born in 1966, in Lewisham, to parents who had grown up in the small north England village of Great Ayton. He attended school in East Anglia, Cheshire and Kent before graduating from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, where he studied Economics & Public Administration.
His first writing break came in London for the weekly paper Boxing News, where he introduced future world featherweight champion Colin McMillan to the mainstream.
After spending the second half of his taxing full-time career in Singapore, he decided on a mid-career change. In 1999 he joined The Straits Times as a correspondent. Then, having straddled the print and television media for two years, he scuttled across to the short-lived but long-loved Channel i News bulletin on a permanent basis in 2003. After anchoring the Olympic Games and UEFA European Championships coverage the following year, Steve was poached by ESPN Star Sports (ESS) as a writer and presenter for the world-renowned nightly news show Sportscenter on ESPN.
While still anchoring Sportscenter and commentating on ONE FC mixed martial arts, boxing, football and tennis, Steve presented 8 seasons of Formula 1 on Star Sports. After a shareholder change that saw ESS morph into Fox Star Sports, Steve now anchors Fox Sports Central week nights at 7.30 and 10pm on Fox Sports.
He is the author of Alex Yoong: The Driver’s Line and How To Be The Greatest Like Muhammad Ali, both published by Marshall Cavendish.
Steve is married to Diana. They have two daughters, Amelia and Haley, and feed Dakota the rabbit and a Cavalier Kings Charles spaniel named Roo.
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