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Global (TV Programme)
''Global'', styled also as ''Global with Matthew Amroliwala'' (as of 8 September 2014), is a news programme on BBC World News that premiered on 14 January 2013 with the relaunch of the channel from Broadcasting House. The programme was hosted initially by Jon Sopel who joined the channel from the domestic BBC News channel. Sopel regularly presented the programme on location around the world and in this case it is broadcast in part on the BBC News channel. Sopel was promoted to North America Editor in 2014, and was succeeded in September by Matthew Amroliwala. ''Global'' replaced ''The Hub'', which originally was an edition of ''World News Today'' and served as a news 'nerve centre' for South Asia and the Middle East, providing both the headlines, and detailed analysis of the global news agenda. As part of BBC's plan to merge its domestic BBC News channel in the UK and BBC World News in early 2023, ''Global'' was one of the programmes which was cancelled. The final episode aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC World News
BBC News is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, and other factual programmes; it broadcasts from studios in London, Washington, D.C., and Singapore. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. On 3 April 2023, the channel's programming and talent was consolidated with the BBC News channel in the UK as part of a restructuring; both channels are now branded as BBC News, and are structured to use a common schedule with domestic opt-outs for UK-specific news coverage and programmes. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence. As such, it is not broadcast in the UK directly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News (British TV Channel)
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air Public broadcasting, 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, 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 Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Moshiri
Maryam Moshiri is a presenter working for the BBC on its News Channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Her programme '' The World Today with Maryam Moshiri'' airs weekdays from 18:00 GMT (international) and 7:00pm UK time (UK), featuring interviews with figures from the arts, culture, and entertainment. Early life and education Moshiri was born in Tehran, Iran and graduated from University College London in 2000 with a BA in Italian. She then completed a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the London College of Communication, graduating in 2001. Her sister, Nazanine Moshiri, worked as a foreign correspondent at Al Jazeera. Career Moshiri began her career as a business reporter for Independent Radio News in July 2001 before joining the BBC in 2003. She worked for 16 years as a business news anchor on flagship programmes such as ''The Business Briefing'', ''Work Life'', and ''Talking Business''. Moshiri also broadcast on Radio 4, BBC Breakfast, and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala McGovern
Nuala McGovern is an Irish journalist and broadcaster working for BBC News. McGovern was the main presenter of '' Outside Source'' on the BBC World Service from 2014 to 2022. She presents Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from Monday to Wednesday. Early life and education McGovern grew up in Drumcondra in Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a publican. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, where she studied English and Italian. Early career After graduating from university she taught English in Italy for a period before moving to the United States after her sister made an application for a green card on her behalf. She got her start in broadcasting as a presenter and producer for Adrian Flannelly's radio show in New York, before joining WNYC. There, McGovern was a producer on '' The Brian Lehrer Show'' for nine years, where she was part of a Peabody Award-winning team. During this time she was also the founding producer of a spin-off show, ''Brian Lehrer Live: Where Web Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Simmonds
Samantha Rose Simmonds (born ) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016. She returned to presenting for BBC News in March 2017. Early life Simmonds was born to an Iranian mother and a Yorkshire-born father. Her mother moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Simmonds grew up in the Alwoodley area of Leeds and attended Leeds Girls' High School. She studied for a BA at Liverpool University. Whilst a student in Liverpool, she appeared as a contestant on the ITV television show ''Blind Date''. Journalism career After gaining a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City University in London in 1995, Simmonds worked as a reporter for local radio in Yorkshire before moving to London for a job as a producer on Channel Five News. She was later a presenter on BBC Breakfast and spent two years reporting and presenting BBC London's news programmes before joining Sky News in 2005. While presenting that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Rogers (journalist)
Chris Rogers (born 13 November 1972) is a British broadcast journalist specialising in investigative journalism, and news presenter. He is among the long line up of presenters that began their career presenting BBC Newsround moving on to present and report for Sky News including its BAFTA Award-winning coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He then joined the Channel 4 RI:SE presenting team before heading to ITN's ITV News, and ITV's ''Tonight'' documentary series, where he presented and reported for London Today, London Tonight, ITV Evening News and produced and fronted numerous investigations for the News at Ten and the Tonight programme as ITV's Investigative Correspondent. He left ITN in 2009 to present BBC News. He has also made many investigations as a producer and reporter for the BBC's ''Panorama'' and the BBC's ''Our World'' documentary series. Since 2017, Rogers has been Creative Director and Executive Producer of the television and online content production company Fresh Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Madera
Katarzyna "Kasia" Madera (born 4 October 1974) is a British journalist and television news presenter. She fronts mainly morning bulletins on BBC One, the BBC News channel, and formerly presented the ''Newsday'' and World News Today.Babita Sharma Biography . Madera is a main presenter on the covering for the channel's chief presenters and alternative weekend afternoons, and the . Early life and education Madera was born at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Thomas
Philippa Thomas (born 22 November 1965) is a former television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign. At the BBC she was a chief news presenter at BBC World News, presenting evening bulletins on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She was presenter of ''Coronavirus: Your Stories'' on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She left the BBC in 2021 to become a full-time Executive Coach. Early life and education She was raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the daughter of an English teacher and an air force pilot and attended a state comprehensive. Thomas joined University College, Oxford to study English Literature in 1984, she switched to Philosophy, Politics and Economics a year later. Career After graduating from university with a double first, Thomas gained a place on the BBC News Trainee scheme. Of the eight in her intake, she was the only woman. Thomas has reported extensively from the United States, South America, Africa, and continental Europe. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geeta Guru-Murthy
Geeta Guru-Murthy is a British television journalist. Since 2013, she has presented mainly morning bulletins, including ''BBC News at Nine'', and bulletins on BBC World News, BBC Two, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Early life Guru-Murthy was born in Liverpool, and grew up in West Bradford, Lancashire close to where her father worked as a radiologist in the local hospitals at Burnley and Blackburn. She was involved with orchestras, theatres and choirs before going on to study biochemistry, and later changing careers. Career Guru-Murthy was a reporter for the BBC's regional news programme, ''BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)'', before moving to ''5 News''. In January 1998, Guru-Murthy covered the breaking of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal from Champaign, Illinois for 5 News. By 2002, Guru-Murthy was hosting ''Asia Today'', with regular work for BBC World, BBC News 24, and BBC Breakfast, and by 2005 presenting the news on BBC Radio 4. In 2002, Guru-Murthy app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Giannone
Karin Thandi Giannone ( ; born January 1974) is a South African-born British news presenter working in the United Kingdom. She is a London-based main presenter on the BBC News channel. Career Giannone edited the student magazine ''Varsity'' magazine at Cambridge, which led to work experience at Anglia Television and on graduation in 1997 she joined the regional ITV station in Norwich as a news trainee, producing, reporting and presenting for regional news bulletins. In 1999 her language and broadcasting skills helped her land a role as a reporter and presenter for Channel 4's ''Football Italia'' series, where she covered the Italian Soccer scene for a season, flying between the UK and Italy every week. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. She also followed troops from the region for a series of reports from Afghanistan in 2002. Giannone then moved to London to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hockings
Lucy Mary Hockings is a New Zealand news presenter for the BBC. She is one of the chief presenters broadcasting worldwide and across the UK. She is also a moderator, events host and media trainer. Her roles previously included anchoring ''Live with Lucy Hockings'' on BBC World News. Since the merger in 2023 of the BBC News channel and BBC World News, Lucy Hockings currently anchors '' BBC News Now'' and on rota ''BBC Weekend News'' on BBC One. Early life, education and early career Hockings was born on 7 March 1974 in Taranaki in New Zealand's North Island. She attended Kristin School in Albany on Auckland's North Shore. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Auckland. Prior to joining the BBC, Hockings worked as a reporter for TVNZ. BBC Hockings joined the BBC as a producer in 1999, before being promoted to senior producer in 2000. As a reporter, Hockings covered the September 11 attacks, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eades
David Eades is a journalist and former BBC News newsreader. He presented ''The World Today'' (05:00–08:00) among other BBC news outlets, and has a long track record in presenting on both domestic and international outlets for the BBC, including ''The World Tonight'' on Radio Four. He has held the posts of Europe Correspondent, Ireland correspondent and senior Sports News Correspondent, as well as the specialist position of Channel Tunnel Correspondent at the time of its construction. He has also presented weekend editions of BBC Breakfast. He was a mentor and trainer for BBC journalists and presenters and also delivered presentational training beyond the broadcasting field. Eades runs his own business, Allday Media Ltd, providing film production services for sports and conference events. Eades is also an MC and moderator, covering international conferences, in particular on areas of European affairs, Sustainability and Sport. Education Eades was educated at the independent sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
