Michele Newman (born 8 March 1956) is an English journalist and television producer, previously a television presenter.

Biography

After studying at the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

from 1977 to 1980, Newman worked at the '' Liverpool Echo''. Between 1981 and 1983, she lived in

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

and

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

to learn the languages, teaching English as a private tutor. During this time, she spent a year at the College International de Cannes in France. Her

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

qualifications include the Alliance française (language and literature), the equivalent of an English A-Level. On returning to Britain in 1983, Newman began a presenting career on the regional

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news programme '' Look East'' in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

, and in 1989 moved to ITV's '' Central News'' in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

. Between 1993 and 1998, she was also a presenter on the BBC motoring programme '' Top Gear''. She also presented ITV's motoring magazine '' Pulling Power'' and Carlton TV's live weekly political debate ''It's Your Shout'', broadcast from a variety of locations around the Carlton TV region, now known as ITV London. Newman has also written a motoring column for ''Women’s Journal'' and contributed to the '' London Evening Standard.'' She had her own TV production company, Newman Productions Ltd, which produced ''House Race'' for ITV in 2004. This was dissolved in 2010.Newman Productions Ltd.
at companiesintheuk.co.uk After leaving TV she studied

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretch ...

at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London and later in

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. She is an active volunteer for Beanstalk (formerly known as Volunteer Reading Help) in Birmingham's primary schools. Also she is a photographer.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Newman, Michele Living people Alumni of the University of York English television presenters 1956 births