Category: News and Current Affairs

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Tazeen Ahmad presents and produces films for Channel 4's Dispatches including Undercover Hospital, Lessons in Hate and Violence, Fashion's Dirty Secret, When Cousins Marry, Woman Only Jihad and Undercover Mother. Tazeen also reports for NBC news.

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Samira Ahmed is journalist,broadcaster and writer.

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A BBC News Channel presenter, Fiona Armstrong has been a familiar face on national and regional news for many years. Fiona’s work ranges from news, to features, to sport. Viewers in the north of England and south of Scotland know her for fronting the evening news programme for ITV Border.

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Joan Bakewell is a much-loved and respected broadcaster with a career that has spanned many decades. Her latest series include Radio 3's Belief. She makes regular appearances on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, BBC 1’s Daily Politics, and GMTV’s Sunday programme. She was recently made a working peer in the House of Lords.

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Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's weekly obituary programme Last Word  and Outlook, the daily magazine programme on BBC World Service

 

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Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes - from light entertainment to documentaries - from BBC1's Rip Off Britain to ITV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

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Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's Middle East Editor.

 

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 A regular co-host on radio and TV, journalist Rosie Boycott appears on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, Question Time, Any Questions, The Late Review and various other talk shows and arts programmes. 

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Michael Buerk is a multi-award winning journalist well known for his international reports from Ethiopia and presenting the BBC 10 'o' clock news.

 

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Mike Bushell is the sports presenters on BBC Breakfast on Fridays and also presents on BBC News.

 

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Benjamin Cohen is technology correspondent of Channel 4 News.

 

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Marverine Cole is a highly experienced journalist & presenter, having amassed hundreds of broadcasting hours of live, rolling TV news with Sky News in London. She now runs her own corporate video production company, Funf Media.

 

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Nick Conrad is a journalist, broadcaster and writer. He presents BBC Look East and makes regular appearances on many current affairs programmes.

 

 

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Michael Crick is political correspondent for Channel 4 News 

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Geoff Cutmore presents CNBC Europe's award winning Squawkbox.

 

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Sarah Dickins presents BBC Radio Wales’ flagship news programme Good Morning Wales.

 

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Tom Dyckhoff is one of the UK’s leading critics and broadcasters on architecture, cities and design. He's presented many programmes including Channel 4 series The Secret Life of Buildings.

 

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Reya El-Salahi is a presenter, writer and journalist with wide-ranging experience in fields as diverse as music, arts & culture, entertainment, fashion, health & beauty, and business. She currently presents a weekly radio programme for BBC Radio Nottingham and was the subject of BBC3's Mixed up in the Middle East in November 2011.

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Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a widely published author and has presented both television and radio series including Channel 4's The Ascent of Money! A Financial History of the World and the major new Channel 4 series in March 2011, Civilization.

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Frances Finn is the Sony Radio Academy’s "Speech Personality Of The Year", 2010. She won the gold award for her morning show on BBC Radio Nottingham, a topical and lively programme that draws on her skills as a journalist and entertainer.

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Jane Garvey is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

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Margaret Gilmore is a writer, broadcaster and analyst specialising in homeland security, the media, and the environment. 

 

 

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Adrian Goldberg presents 5 Live Investigates on BBC Radio 5 Live, a weekly investigative consumer programme. He also presents on BBC Radio West Midlands. From February 2012 he will present the late morning programme.

Former BBC1 Watchdog and Politics Show presenter Adrian Goldberg made his name as an independent film-maker, following the release of his controversial investigative documentary Manchester Disunited And Other Football Feuds.

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Jacqui Hames is the presenter of ITV's Crime Channel (www.itvlocal.com), and is one of Britain’s best-known real life Detectives, having presented live TV appeals on the BBC flagship show Crimewatch every month for 16 yrs. After serving with the Metropolitan Police for over 25 years she is now seen regularly on GMTV and Sky News giving advice and commenting on news stories.

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Tim Harford is an economist, award-winning journalist and speaker, TV and radio personality, and bestselling author. His books include The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life and presents the hugely popular More or Less on BBC Radio 4.

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Jane is a regular reporter for Week in Week Out for BBC Wales. She’s enjoyed a varied career, working for both ITV and BBC, specialising in news and current affairs and factual entertainment.

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Penny Haslam presents business news on BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel.

 

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Until early 2008 Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman was the most senior policeman in charge of the UK’s counter terrorism policy and operations. He worked directly to the Cabinet and Prime Minister. Whilst in post he controlled the police operations that foiled 15 terrorist attacks and led to the conviction of 50 perpetrators. Previously in his police career he’d been a Chief Constable and in charge of the Met’s anti-drugs and anti-corruption teams. In his years as a police officer he’d seen service in some of the most contentious and difficult areas of policing.

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Alice Hibbert is an international news and current affairs presenter and correspondent. She is the lead female anchor on the Moscow-based 24 hour news channel RT. Alice also fronts a number of lifestyle and travel programmes. She previously worked at ITN's London Tonight before moving to Russia in 2005 to present RT's business programme.

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Jane is the presenter of the BBC news channel’s lunchtime programming, 11am to 2pm weekdays, alongside Matthew Amroliwala. On BBC1 she presents the One o’clock news and weekend bulletins, and has fronted Breakfast and the 6 o’clock news on numerous occasions. She also presents The World Tonight on Radio 4, and BBC World.

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Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Channel 4 News. She is amongst Britain's leading foreign correspondents, having reported from every continent over 20 years.

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Nina Hossain is a main presenter of ITV's London Tonight. Nina co-anchors ITV London bulletins, presents the capital’s main stories of the day and conducts exclusive interviews with high-profile figures and celebrities. In addition, Nina also presents a number of national news bulletins for ITV News.

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patrick_jephson.jpgPatrick Jephson was born and raised in Ireland. He has a Masters Degree in Political Science from Cambridge University. After ten years as an officer in the Royal Navy he was selected to join the Royal Household, serving for eight years as Equerry and as the first and only Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to Diana, Princess of Wales. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for personal service to the Sovereign.

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johnson_stanley_website.jpgBroadcaster, journalist, author, conservationalist – Stanley Johnnson’s achievements are numerous, traveling the world in pursuit of animal welfare and spearheading environmental projects. Stanley has had many books published and regularly writes for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics – from politics and travel to society at large. He appears on television and radio, presenting documentaries for Channel Four as well as guesting on news, current affairs and feature programmes.

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Darren Jordon is a senior news presenter for the 24-hour Al Jazeera English news and current affairs channel based in Doha, Qatar. He regularly presents the main Newshour programmes and also anchors Inside Story.

 

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Gillian Joseph presents Sky News Sunrise at weekends. 

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Allan is well known as a presenter of award-winning television news, having been a main Sky News presenter for more than 14 years. He anchored many major breaking stories, including the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport, winning a BAFTA in 2008.

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Kirsty is the presenter of World News Today, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World. She is also a regular presenter for Front Row on BBC Radio 4.

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Phil Lavelle is a news correspondent for BBC Breakfast where he's worked full time since 2009. Before joining Breakfast, he was one of the main faces of Five News and an Entertainment Correspondent/Presenter for Sky News.

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Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis in an award winning TV and Radio presenter, newspaper columnist, author and campaigner. He runs wwww.moneysavingexpert.com, the UK’s biggest money site, which has 10million users a month. Martin has a resident Money Saving Expert slot on ITV’s Daybreak every Tuesday and can also be seen every Thursday on ITV’s Lorraine. He’s also a regular contributor to BBC’s Watchdog.

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          Sophie Long presents on the BBC News channel.

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Sue MacGregor is one of BBC Radio's most familiar voices and is a former presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. She has even been described (by the Times) as "simply the best female presenter radio has produced".

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Kasia Madera has been a BBC News Journalist and Presenter since 2002.She regularly stands in for George Alagiah on the BBC One Daytime Summaries and also regularly presents the BBC News Channel. As well as covering domestic news Kasia has an international following on BBC World. She can be presenting BBC World at weekends and overnight, attracting audiences of millions.

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David Mannion is amongst the most respected and experienced international broadcast executives. He is also an established broadcaster in his own right having been a guest on many radio and television programmes and been host of his own political/media show on London's LBC.  

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James Max is an accomplished Radio and TV presenter with an expertise in business and finance with a flair for debates on current affairs. He presents the Saturday and Sunday Breakfast show on London's Biggest Conversation, the talk radio station, LBC 97.3

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  Tessa Mayes currently writes the Royal Blog for the Daily Telegraph . She is also a documentary feature film reporter/director and author.

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Lawrence is the Science Editor for ITN. During his career he has won many awards including; 2 BAFTAs for Channel 4 News and Best News or Outside Broadcast and 2 RTS awards for the Best Sports News Report for the coverage of the drugs scandal at the Barcelona Olympics, and the Kings Cross Disaster.

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Louise Minchin presents the BBC's award-winning Breakfast, The One O'Clock News and the BBC News Channel, as well as Real Rescues and Missing Live on BBC One.

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  Saima Mohsin has been working as a presenter on Channel 4 News since July 2011. She has been a journalist for more than a decade working for BBC NEWS, BBC One, ITV News, GMTV, SKY News, Five and Channel 4. In 2007 she was headhunted to be the face of Dawn News, Pakistan's first English news channel. She moved on to work as Special Correspondent for PBS Newshour in 2010 covering Pakistan for the acclaimed news show in Washington.She has been listed amongst 'The top 100 women to shake Pakistan' by Newsweek magazine's Pakistan edition. 

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Robert Moore is ITN's Washington Correspondent for ITV News.

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Juliet Morris is a former Newsround and BBC Breakfast presenter and has since fronted House Detectives, The Travel Show and The Heaven and Earth Show all for the BBC. She has also been a reporter on Countryfile for BBC1.

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 Tim Muffett is a BBC Breakfast reporter 

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Cathy Newman is co-presenter of Channel 4 News.

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Susan Osman hosts The Beijing Hour with Susan Osman, a current affairs hour on CRI- China Radio International which is broadcast in 65 languages around the world.  

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Nicholas Owen is a Presenter with BBC News. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel Four News and News at Ten. He has also appeared in a wide range of other TV and radio programmes.

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Nick Owen came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain. He is now the presenter of BBC Midlands Today.

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Stewart Purvis’s career is probably unique in its range across journalism, management and regulation. A BBC News trainee, he spent over thirty years at ITN, winning many awards. He edited Channel 4 News before becoming the Editor in Chief and Chief Executive of ITN. He is a former partner for content and standards of Ofcom and is now a Professor of Television Journalism at City University.

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Angela Rippon has been a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for over 40 years. The career of this award winning journalist has embraced an impressive variety of programmes on both radio and television for both commercial and BBC stations in Britain, America and Australia.

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Jamie Robertson is a highly experienced presenter of business programmes for the BBC, specialising in international finance, business and economics. As a lead presenter on the BBC World’s prestigious World Business Report he has covered subjects ranging from the "dot.com boom" to the collapse of Enron and the rise of the Chinese and Indian economies, interviewing the movers and shakers in global finance.

 

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Now a science and environment broadcaster and writer, Julian Rush spent over ten years as the Science & Environment Correspondent for Channel 4 News, where his flair and enthusiasm for accessible explanation, investigation and analysis of a wide range of complex issues was recognised with several major TV industry awards.

 

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 Dominic Sandbrook is an historian, writer and broadcaster.   

 

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Tim Sebastian, the award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent, presented HARDtalk, BBC World's daily half-hour interview programme.

 

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Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter. He presents the BBC World News series, Horizons and regularly presents Panorama.    

 

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Samantha Simmonds is a presenter on Sky News. 

 

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Dani is a regular face on television news bulletins for BBC London and BBC South where she is an established presenter and reporter. She also works as a News Correspondent for the News Channel, often reporting on the top story of the day for TV and the BBC’s national radio outlets.

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 Peter Sissons is one of British television's most experienced news presenters. During a career spanning 25 years at ITN and 20 at the BBC he presented almost every network news programme on terrestrial television

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Matt Smith is a TV and radio journalist, with over fifteen years on-air experience. He’s worked for BBC TV, BBC Radio, Radio 1 and Sky News.

 

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 Jon Snow presents Channel 4 News.  


 

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Julia Somerville presents on BBC News and BBC1 after a long and distingushed career in BBC Radio, BBC TV News and ITN. 

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Alison is a multi-award-winning personal finance journalist and editor of the website www.mymoneydiva.com. She was the deputy personal finance editor of the Daily Telegraph, where she worked for more than six years as a personal finance specialist, and broke numerous exclusives. She has an easy manner and enthusiastic style, which helps her explain money in an accessible and straightforward way.

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Moira Stuart currently presents news on Chris Evans' BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

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Colin Sutton is a retired Senior Investigating Officer for the Met Police’s Murder Squad.  He led many investigations, among them those which led to the convictions of  Levi Bellfield and Delroy Grant. He now advises and provides commentary and insight around crime and criminal justice issues for both the written and broadcast media.  

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Alex Thomson is a familiar figure in British TV news as both an award-winning correspondent and anchor on ITN's Channel 4 News. He combines reporting on major national and international stories and war coverage with his studio presenting role on Channel 4's in-depth 7pm nightly news.

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Isla Traquair has reported and presented for both ITV News and Channel 5 News. 

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Harry Wallop is the Daily Telegraph's award-winning Consumer Affairs Editor as well as a prospective author and occasional television pundit.

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Romilly Weeks is a news correspondent and anchor on ITV News.

 

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Author and cultural commentator Peter Whittle is founder/director of the New Culture Forum. His TV and radio work includes regular appearances on BBC 2’s Newsnight Review and the Daily Politics, Radio 4’s Moral Maze and Start the Week and Sky News. He hosted of the UK’s first online cultural analysis show, Culture Clash. 

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Tim Willcox is a presenter with BBC News. As an anchor in and outside the studio he has covered some of the biggest national and international stories of the past decade. He won huge praise of his coverage of the miners' rescue in Chile and has played a major role in BBC's coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings and the Japanese Tsunami. 

 

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Dr Kate Williams is an historian, with a particular specialisation in 17th to early 20th century history who has presented and contributed to numerous programmes across all the television and radio networks.

 

 

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Joanna Yarrow is one of Britain's leading experts on ethical living, and combines her passion and experience with a flair for engaging diverse audiences.

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