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Victoria Derbyshire (TV Programme)
''Victoria Derbyshire'' is a British weekday current affairs programme, which was simulcast from April 2015 to March 2020 on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, hosted by Victoria Derbyshire. Its remit includes original stories, exclusive interviews and audience debates. It also acts as a showcase for BBC journalism using reports and interviews by BBC Nations and Regions, BBC World Service, language services and other programmes such as ''Newsnight'', '' World News Today'' and ''Global,'' plus the BBC Online teams such as BBC Trending and BBC Pop Up. Occasionally the uncut versions of interviews were aired as well, in this case they were taken in place of ''HARDtalk'' and aired by BBC World News as well. Broadcasting Until 2018, the show was broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC News from 9:00am to 11:00am every Monday to Friday, from then on its start time was shifted forward an hour to 10:00am. Its episodes were available to watch for 30days after release on the BBC iPlayer catch-up s ... [...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] |
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] |
Victoria Fritz
Victoria Valentine (formerly Fritz; born 14 May 1984) is a former English journalist, newsreader, and television presenter. She was a presenter on BBC World News, presenting the shows main news bulletins, and presenter for BBC World News's live business news programmes ''World Business Report'' and '' Worklife''. She was also a presenter and business correspondent on BBC News and ''BBC Breakfast''. She stepped down from her role presenting her last BBC News bulletin on 22 September 2023. Early life and education Victoria Valentine was born on 14 May 1984. Her mother is Irish. Valentine was educated at Woldingham School in Surrey. She studied law and economics, and environmental economics at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2006, and later studied environmental economics at Cambridge Judge Business School from 2006 to 2007, graduating with a Master of Business Administration degree. Career In 2006, Valentine began her broadcasting career at Reuters' financial comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed (born 15 June 1968) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she presents '' Front Row'' on Radio 4 and '' Newswatch'' on the BBC News channel and BBC One during '' BBC Breakfast'', and regularly presents radio documentaries. She was named British Broadcasting Press Guild audio presenter of the year in March 2020. Her recent documentaries include ''Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse'' (March 2022). She has presented Radio 3's '' Night Waves'' and Radio 4's '' PM'', ''The World Tonight'', Today, ''Sunday'' and has presented the Proms for BBC Four. Ahmed's writing has appeared in several British publications including ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''The Spectator arts blog'', and writes a regular column for '' New Humanist''. She was a reporter and presenter on ''Channel 4 News'' from 2000 to 2011. She presented '' Sunday Morning Live'', a topical discussion programme on BBC One from 2012 to 2013. Early life Ahmed was born in Wandswor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riz Lateef
Rizwana "Riz" Lateef is a British journalist, newsreader and deputy news manager at the BBC. She is the principal presenter for the regional television news service for London, BBC London. Lateef presents the '' BBC London News'' 18:30 bulletin from Monday to Thursday and some editions of the 22:30 programme. Early life Lateef was born in London. Her family are from Pakistan. She was educated at Westminster Business School and attended the University of Westminster where she graduated with an MBA. Career She also used to present the now-defunct Friday edition of the National 20:00 ''Summary'' on BBC One. She joined BBC London in 2003 as a reporter and occasional newsreader. Following the departure of Emily Maitlis in March 2006 to present on BBC News 24, Riz was promoted to present the flagship 6.30pm '' BBC London News'' programme on BBC One. She was also the main anchor for the ''BBC London News Podcast'', presented by BBC as a trial. She also presented the 60 Seconds bull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Barbet
Matthew Barbet (born 8 June 1976) is a British television presenter and journalist, best known for his work with Channel 5 and ITV. In 2003, Barbet joined BBC News, where he worked on various news programmes. In September 2007, he left BBC News so he could join 5 News. He covered some of the broadcaster's main news events. In September 2012 until April 2014, Barbet co-presented '' Daybreak'' alongside Ranvir Singh, before returning to 5 News for ''5 News Tonight''. Barbet has also presented ''The Cycle Show'' for ITV4 and '' The Saturday Show'' for Channel 5. Early life Growing up in Cilcain in North Wales, Barbet attended the Alun School in Mold, Flintshire and later studied at Cardiff University before returning to the Cardiff School of Journalism. Career Before joining BBC London in 2003, Barbet worked at BBC Radio 1 as a newsreader on the ''Sara Cox Breakfast Show''. In 2006 he presented BBC London's Children in Need coverage. He also presented the BBC's '' STORYFix'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Daheley
Tina Daheley (born ) is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC, both on television and radio. She currently reads the news on ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' with Scott Mills, often contributing to discussions during the show. In addition, she is the regular relief presenter of the Jeremy Vine programme on BBC Radio 2. She is also a relief presenter on the '' BBC News at Ten'' and ''BBC News at Six''. In 2018, she became the narrator (and later the regular presenter) of '' Points of View''. Career Daheley began working behind the scenes in television production and worked on Space Cadets in an early production role. Daheley joined the BBC in 2007. She has presented television coverage of women's football and co-presented the BBC Three political discussion show ''Free Speech'', alongside Rick Edwards. Daheley has also presented the '' 60 Seconds'' news on BBC Three, ''E24'' on the News Channel and '' Revealed'' (BBC Two's Switch Zone). She is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Smith (journalist)
Norman Stuart Smith (born 30 April 1959) is a British journalist. He became the chief political correspondent of BBC News in 2011, and was its assistant political editor from 2014 to 2020. Education Smith was educated at Oundle School and St Peter's College, Oxford, where he read history. Career Smith began his career in regional newspapers in Birmingham and Bristol, before joining the BBC as a local radio reporter in 1986. Smith became a parliamentary correspondent in 1993, presenting ''Today'' and ''Yesterday in Parliament'' on BBC Radio 4. He has reported for the BBC from the Palace of Westminster since 1999. In 2010, he became chief political correspondent for Radio 4. In July 2011, Smith was appointed to the position of chief political correspondent for the BBC News channel, replacing Laura Kuenssberg who departed to ITN, before then being promoted to the position of assistant political editor in 2014. Since 2015, Smith has been a relief presenter for ''Victoria Derbyshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Gracie
Carrie Gracie (born 1962)Ben Dowel"Carrie Gracie profile: Award-winning journalist with years at World Service" theguardian.com, 12 May 2009 is a Scottish journalist and newsreader best known as having been China Editor for BBC News. She resigned from this post at the beginning of January 2018, citing what she said was subject to sex-based pay discrimination for the BBC's international editors. She returned to her former post in the BBC newsroom until August 2020, when she announced unexpectedly that she would be leaving the corporation to pursue other interests. Early life Gracie's father was a Scottish oil executive; Gracie was born in Bahrain while he was on assignment there. She was educated in Aberdeenshire and Glasgow. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, before leaving to run her own restaurant for a year. She then graduated from Hertford College, Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annita McVeigh
Annita McVeigh is a Northern Irish journalist and news presenter, working for BBC News. Background McVeigh was raised on a farm near Armagh, and attended a school in Dungannon. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Politics from Queen's University Belfast in 1991. Career McVeigh's career in journalism began at the Ulster Gazette and Tyrone Courier. In the late 1990s she began working for the BBC, as a journalist at BBC Newsline. As of 2002, McVeigh was the Ireland correspondent for BBC News, also covering Northern Ireland. In 2003, McVeigh co-presented live coverage on the television channel BBC World of the unfolding events in Iraq. In 2004, McVeigh was a Special Correspondent at BBC News. In 2006, she began presenting on the BBC News channel. During some of the 2000s, she presented alongside Chris Lowe between 7pm and 10pm on Friday evenings and 7pm and midnight on weekend evenings; during her maternity leave from this role, Sophie Long presented. In 2016 and 2017, McVei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Tilley
Chloe Tilley (born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire) is a British radio presenter who co-presents the breakfast programme on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on Times Radio. Background Tilley was born in Bingham in Nottinghamshire. An English teacher at school made Tilley interested in journalism. She studied broadcast journalism at the University of Leeds. Career After leaving university, Tilley worked at BBC Look North for Yorkshire. Tilley's radio career began at Trent FM in Nottingham, where she read the news. In 2005, Tilley began to sit in for presenters on BBC Radio 5 Live. As of 2006, Tilley was co-presenting the drivetime show on BBC Radio Newcastle with Jon Harle. From 2008 until 2017, Tilley presented the one-hour edition of '' World Have Your Say'', a programme on the BBC World Service's English-language service which let listeners have their say on important news events via phone, text message, email and other modes of communication. From 2010 until 2012, Tilley pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
