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BBC News At Five
The ''BBC News at Five'' was an hour-long daily news programme which was broadcast at 5:00pm on BBC News between 2006 and 2020. The programme was fronted by Huw Edwards, who at the time was the BBC's lead presenter for major breaking news. Gavin Esler or Jane Hill presented the show on a Friday. The show included a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and sport and weather updates. The programme was placed on an indefinite hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The final edition of the ''BBC News at Five'' was broadcast on 13 March 2020. History The programme started on 3 April 2006 as part of the BBC's relaunch of BBC News presenters, which saw the introduction of the new flagship programme to compete against Jeremy Thompson's '' Live at Five'' programme on rival channel Sky News, and to improve BBC News ratings for the hour. As part of the 2008 news revamp, the show moved studios within BBC Television Centre along with BBC News and the ''BBC New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News Channel
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during British daytime, with overnight broadcasts anchored from Washington, D.C. and Singapore. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30, as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.About BBC News 24 TV Home On 22 February 2006, the channel was named ''News Channel of the Year'' at the |
Zeinab Badawi
Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi (; born 3 October 1959) is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ''ITV Morning News'' (later known as '' ITV News at 5:30''), and co-presented ''Channel 4 News'' with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of '' World News Today'' broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and ''Reporters'', a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC. In 2021, Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London. Badawi serves on several civic boards and published her first book, ''An African History of Africa'', in 2024. Early life and education Badawi was born on 3 October 1959 in Khartoum, Sudan, and has lived in Britain since the age of two. Her great-grandfather, Sheikh Babiker Badri, fought against Kitchener's British forces at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and pioneered women's education in Sudan. Badawi's father, Mohamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Sopel
Jonathan B. Sopel (born 22 May 1959) is a British journalist, television presenter and podcaster. He was formerly BBC News's North America editor; chief political correspondent for the domestic news channel BBC News; a presenter on the '' Politics Show'' on BBC One and the BBC News channel; and from 2013 to 2014, the main presenter of ''Global'' on BBC World News. Since 2022, he has been presenting the Global daily news podcast '' The News Agents''. Early life Born in 1959 to Jewish parents Myer and Miriam Sopel, his family moved from Stepney to Finchley, North London when he was eleven. He was educated at Christ's College, Finchley before graduating with a 2:1 honours degree in Politics and Sociology from University of Southampton. Sopel was the president of the Students' Union, for the National Organisation of Labour Students during 1982 and 1983. Broadcasting career Sopel was a freelance writer and broadcaster before joining the BBC in 1983 as a reporter and producer for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Gosling
Joanna Marie Nussett Gosling (born 5 January 1971) is an English broadcaster, currently presenting a weekly programme on Classic FM (UK), Classic FM. Gosling was a newsreader and presenter at BBC News (British TV channel), BBC News from 1999 to 2023, anchoring a number of major political and royal events. She also presented BBC Two, BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire (TV programme), ''Victoria Derbyshire'' current affairs programme on Fridays, between 2015 and 2020. Gosling previously worked for Sky News, ITN, Central Independent Television, Central, Independent Radio News, IRN and started her career in local radio. Early life and education Joanna Marie Nussett Gosling was born on 5 January 1971. The eldest of three children, Gosling was raised in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She was educated at Aylesbury High School and the University of Birmingham. Gosling graduated with a second-class degree in French, which included an Erasmus Programme, Erasmus year at the University of Grenob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Willcox
Timothy Melton Willcox (born 28 May 1963 in Wellington, Somerset, Wellington, Somerset) is a British journalist who formerly worked as a presenter for BBC News. He presents news programmes on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. He is probably most recognisable for presenting the BBC's live coverage from Chile during events surrounding the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, Copiapó mining accident and anchoring the BBC's live daytime coverage during the early days of the Cairo January Egyptian revolution of 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution. Early life Willcox was born on 28 May 1963. He grew up in Norton Fitzwarren, in south-west Somerset. He was educated at Taunton School, an independent school in Somerset, and St Chad's College, Durham University where he studied Spanish.Profile – Tim Willcox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Owen (journalist)
Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English journalist, television presenter and radio presenter. He previously presented on the BBC News channel and BBC One, and used to present a weekly programme on Classic FM radio. Early life Born in London, to Tom and Edna Owen, he moved with his family while a child to Kingswood, Surrey, and was raised there and in the Redhill and Reigate area. He was initially educated at Hamsey Green primary school, Sanderstead but after his mother died when he was aged eight, he was raised by his father and sent for a period to boarding school, at what is today The Beacon School, a state comprehensive Academy school on Picquets Way in Banstead in Surrey, but was then known as ''Banstead County Secondary School'', a state Secondary Modern School for boys, which later merged with the girls' school to become ''Nork Park County Secondary School'' in 1963. Owen left what was then West Ewell secondary modern, on Danetree Road in Ewel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a Canadian-born British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC who was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme ''Newsnight'' until the end of 2021. She has since been a presenter of the daily podcast '' The News Agents'' on LBC Radio. In November 2019, she carried out an hour-long interview with Prince Andrew, Duke of York for the BBC, in which she probed the prince's relationship with American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Early life and education Maitlis was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to British Jewish parents; her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. She is the daughter of Peter Maitlis, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Basco, a psychotherapist from Cambridge. Her mother studied French and Spanish at St Hugh's College, Oxford. In September 1958, her mother began teaching French at Cambridgeshire High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Worricker
Julian Gordon Worricker (born 6 January 1963 in Woking, Surrey) is an English journalist, currently working as one of the main presenters of ''Weekend'' on the BBC World Service, as stand-in presenter of '' Any Answers'' on BBC Radio 4, and as a relief presenter on ''The Media Show'' which is also seen on BBC News, the corporation's 24-hour rolling news channel. He also presented '' You and Yours'' on BBC Radio 4 until leaving in October 2013. Early life Worricker was educated at Epsom College in Surrey; he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. Career He joined the BBC in 1985 as a staff reporter for BBC Radio Leicester before moving to ''Midlands Today'' as a TV presenter in 1988. In January 1989, he rejoined Radio Leicester as News Editor. In 1991, he moved to join the newly launched station Radio Five in Manchester, presenting the evening magazine programme, ''Five Aside''. He joined Five Live at its launch in 1994, initially as a newsreader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sissons
Peter George Sissons (17 July 1942 – 1 October 2019) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He was a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4, before becoming the presenter of the BBC's '' Question Time'' between 1989 and 1993, and a presenter of the ''BBC Nine O'Clock News'' and '' Ten O'Clock News'' between 1993 and 2003. He retired from the BBC in 2009 and died in 2019 from leukaemia at the age of 77. Early life Born at Smithdown Road Hospital in Liverpool on 17 July 1942, Sissons was the third of four brothers, sons of Merchant Navy officer George Robert Percival Sissons and his wife Elsie Emma (Evans), an employee in a department store. He attended Dovedale Junior School with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck, passed the eleven-plus and attended the Liverpool Institute for Boys from 1953 to 1961 with the theatre producer Bill Kenwright, the politician Steven Norris, and George Harrison and Paul McCartney from the Beatles. He studied philosophy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Minchin
Louise Mary Minchin (née Grayson; born 8 September 1968) is a British television presenter, journalist and former news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC. Beginning in 2012, Minchin was a regular anchor on the BBC One programme ''Breakfast'', co-hosting the show three days a week, originally with Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt and then with Dan Walker from 2016. On 8 June 2021, Minchin announced live on air that she would be leaving ''BBC Breakfast'' "after the summer", after presenting the show for 20 years (at first as a stand-in host). Her final appearance on the show was on 15 September 2021. From 2009 until 2012, Minchin co-hosted '' Real Rescues'' alongside Nick Knowles and Chris Hollins. She has guest-hosted '' The One Show'' a number of times since 2010. Early life The eldest of three children, Minchin was born Louise Mary Grayson in 1968 in British Hong Kong, where her father was a Major in the Irish Guards of the British Army. She grew u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Brown (journalist)
Benjamin Russell Brown (born 26 May 1960) is an English journalist and news presenter best known for presenting BBC News programmes, including '' News at One'' and '' Weekend News''. Early life Benjamin Russell Brown was born on 26 May 1960 in Kent. He is the son of the ITN newscaster Antony Brown. Brown was educated at Sutton Valence School, an independent school near Maidstone. During his time at school, Brown was on the debating team, and took second place in the national debating championships. He won an Open Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before graduating from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies with a Diploma with a Distinction. He joined Radio Clyde in Glasgow as a reporter, and later became a reporter for Radio City in Liverpool. Career Reporting In 1986, Brown joined Independent Radio News, covering major stories from superpower summits to the Hungerford massacre. He joined BBC T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
