Luisa Baldini (born in Tanzania) is an Anglo-Italian presentation and communication expert, previously having worked for

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 broad ...

as a Deputy Royal Correspondent among many other assignments.

Education

Baldini was educated at

St Helen's School St Helen's School London is a private day school for girls aged three to eighteen in Northwood, North West London. It is associated with the Merchant Taylors' Company and works in close collaboration with the local Merchant Taylors' School in a ...

, a private school for girls in Northwood in North London as a boarding pupil, before attending

Haileybury College Haileybury is a co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire. It is a member of the Rugby Group and enrols pupils at the 11+, 13+ and 16+ stages of edu ...

, a private

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boarding and day school in

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, followed by the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

, where she studied modern languages and

Falmouth University Falmouth University is a specialist public university for the creative industries based in Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth and Penryn, Cornwall, Penryn, Cornwall, England. Founded as Falmouth School of Art in 1902, it was later known as Falmouth C ...

, where whe gained a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism.

Life and career

Baldini worked as a reporter for London-based rolling news radio station News Direct 97.3FM, she then moved to pan-European satellite channel in Lyon, France

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, followed by

ITN Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New York City, New York, Paris, Sydney and Washin ...

in London, where her first full-time television reporting role was at '' Five News''. In 2002 she moved to the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

, first as a reporter to

BBC Breakfast ''BBC Breakfast'' is a British television breakfast news programme, produced by BBC News and broadcast on BBC One every morning from 6:00am. It is also broadcast on the UK feed of BBC News channel on weekends. The simulcast is presented live, ...

, then to the one o'clock news. She also became a dedicated late reporter for the 10 O'Clock News under the editorship of Sir Craig Oliver. Her work also appeared on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Being trilingual (she speaks

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

, English and French), Baldini has been sent to Italy to report on major news stories for BBC News, including the death of the

Pope The pope is the bishop of Rome and the Head of the Church#Catholic Church, visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff, or sovereign pontiff. From the 8th century until 1870, the po ...

John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

, the

2009 L'Aquila earthquake An earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy, at 03:32 Central European Time#Central European Summer Time, CEST (01:32 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC) on 6 April 2009. It was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on ...

, the trial concerning the

Murder of Meredith Kercher Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her room. By the t ...

, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the

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accident. In 2004, Otis Ferry contacted Baldini before he and his friends raided the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

in support of the

hunting Hunting is the Human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide (sk ...

debate. Although Baldini reported it to news editors, the BBC did not act or report it to the police in advance of the incident, causing a furore. Baldini left the BBC in 2014 moving to New York with her husband's job, returning to the UK in 2017 when she set up Composure Media, a presentation and communication training business. Baldini is married with two children. She is the granddaughter to Sir Horace Phillips, a former British diplomat and former ambassador to Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and High Commissioner to Tanzania.

References

External links

www.luisabaldini.com

www.composure.media
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Q&A at TV Newsroom
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Tanzanian emigrants to the United Kingdom English people of Italian descent Alumni of the University of Exeter Alumni of Falmouth University British journalists BBC newsreaders and journalists People educated at St Helen's School Royal correspondents {{UK-journalist-stub