Presenter and journalist Tazeen Ahmad makes films for Dispatches for Channel 4 including titles Woman Only Jihad, Undercover Mother and Christmas Credit Crisis.

 

 

Samira Ahmed is a familiar face to viewers as an experienced presenter and correspondent for Channel 4 News. Previously a news correspondent and presenter for BBC News, BBC World and Newsnight, and a presenter at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin, Samira has reported extensively on crime, terrorism and the arts and was BBC Los Angeles correspondent.

 

Peter Allen is the Drivetime presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live. He was winner of the News Broadcaster Award Gold Medal at the Sony Radio Awards 2002.

 

 

A presenter, producer and writer, 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 many years for ITV Border.

 

Zeinab Badawi is currently presenting her own evening daily programme World News Today at 1900 on BBC 4 TV, which is the only programme simultaneously broadcast on the BBC World Channel.

 

 

Matthew Bannister is a journalist and broadcaster. He has presented programmes on all the BBC’s radio networks apart from Radio 3.

 

 

Matt Barbet presents Five News on Channel 5, as well as reporting from around the world. He moved to Channel Five in October 2007 after spending four years as one of the main presenters at BBC London.

 

Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes - from light entertainment to documentaries.

She's known to young and old for her exploits in the jungle of ITV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and had to eat a variety of live insects.

 

 

Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a foreign correspondent since 1987. He has covered most of the big world stories in the last 22 years, reporting from over seventy countries. Jeremy has presented BBC Breakfast and has also fronted a number of landmark documentaries for the BBC. He is currently the BBC's Middle East Editor.

 

 A regular co-host on radio and TV, Rosie appears on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, Question Time, Any Questions, The Late Review and various other talk shows and arts programmes. Rosie makes regular appearances on news programmes and current affairs. She was the subject of a one-off documentary on her editorship of the Independent.

 

Michael Brunson recently retired as ITN's Political Editor, a position which he held since 1986.  As ITN's Political Editor, he reported on every recent political event in Britain. In June 1991 Michael Brunson's interview with Margaret Thatcher made headlines when she revealed to him her wish to take her seat in the House of Lords, and told him of her thoughts as her time as Prime Minister drew to a close. Brunson again interviewed Mrs Thatcher at length in November 1991, exactly a year after her dramatic resignation, in which she made known her views on European economic and monetary union.

 

Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5. His reports filmed with the Nairobi-based cameraman, Mohamed Amin alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy. They were shown worldwide, to an audience of billions. They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved well over a million lives.

 

Mike presents the sport on BBC Breakfast TV on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and covers for Chris Hollins when he is away. He has also reported for the BBC from around the world, from Malaysia,to the United Arab Emirates, and at a number of World cups and Olympics. He has also presented programmes on history and entertainment, and was an actor and rock musician.

 

 

Jonathan Charles has spent the past few years going in and out of some of the most dangerous places on earth. Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya are just a few of the wars and conflicts that he covered during his two decades as a BBC television and radio foreign correspondent. Jonathan now reads the news, as a freelance presenter, on BBC1, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

Michael Cockerell is Britain's top political documentary maker, who has had a long and award-winning career spanning television and radio. According to the Sunday Telegraph recently: "his tv profiles are part of our political life. you are no-one in politics until you have been Cockerelled." He is also a highly experienced public speaker, broadcaster and conference chairman.

 

 

Benjamin Cohen is well known both as an entrepreneur and as a television journalist.

He has been both the youngest ever director of a public company and the youngest correspondent on a network news programme. He regularly speaks on his experiences in the dot.com boom, privacy, e-commerce, new media and diversity.

 

Marverine is a qualified broadcast journalist and Business Studies graduate who’s currently an anchor for World News & Business Report on Sky News.

 

  Ellie Crisell is key presenting talent and a journalist at the BBC. Ellie anchored Newsround on BBC1 between April 2003 and March 2008. Ellie is now the presenter of the BBC1 8pm Bulletin and a regular presenter on the BBC News Channel. She has also presented for BBC London and appeared as a reporter and pundit on children's issues on Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and the One O'Clock News. Ellie previously worked for ITN, presenting radio and television news.

  

 

Daljit Dhaliwal is the Anchor of WNET's Worldfocus based in New York.

 

Sarah is a well established journalist and presenter with extensive experience of live television and radio. She currently presents BBC Wales’ flagship news programme Good Morning Wales covering all aspects of international and national news and interviewing guests from Prime Ministers to snake charmers. Sarah also presented the weekly business programme Wales@Work for five years and won three Work World Media awards from the Work Foundation.

 

 

 

Carl Dinnen is a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News, Channel Four News at Noon and More4 News.

 

Gwenan is a trained journalist and has worked with BBC Television News for over 10 years as presenter/reporter.

 

Maya Even presented  The Money Programme, the BBC's financial and business flagship programme for two years.  Prior to this she worked for Channel Four and ITN as the presenter of House to House, the daily parliament and politics programme.

 

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 resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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.

 

Sandy Gall's career with ITN spanned nearly 30 years, from 1963 to 1992. He was part of the original team of News at Ten- the first half-hour television news in Britain launched in 1967 and now ITN's flagship programme- and became one of its senior newscasters.

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

Adrian Goldberg is currently presenting the overnight show on TalkSport from 1am to 6am, from Tuesday to Friday.

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

 

Liam Halligan is Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management - one of the world's leading asset-management firms, with investments worth more than $5bn across Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Along with his role at PCM, Liam is also one of the UK's leading economics commentators. For the last six years he has written the highly-influential Economics Agenda column for the Sunday Telegraph - which was recently recognised with a coveted British Press Award.

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.

 

 

Jane is a trained broadcast journalist and presenter. She’s enjoyed a varied career, working for both ITV and BBC, specialising in news and current affairs and factual entertainment. Jane works in Radio and Television and particularly relishes the challenge of live broadcasting.

 

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.

Alice Hibbert is an international news and current affairs presenter and correspondent. She is the lead female anchor on Russia Today, the Moscow-based 24 hour news channel. Alice previously worked at ITN’s London Tonight before moving to Russia in 2005 to front and produce RT’s business programme. 

 

Alexandra is currently a presenter for ITV News and Sport, fronting morning news and lunchtime bulletins as well as presenting World Cup bulletins for ITV Sport.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

Emma Howard is a former BBC News presenter and reporter on both television and radio. As a news correspondent she worked for the One, Six and Ten O'clock News as well as Radio 4 and 5Live - and as a presenter she fronted Breakfast on BBC 1 and later presented on News 24 and Drive Time on 5Live.

 

Bettany is asked to write comment pieces for a number of national and international newspapers as well as to appear regularly as a commentator on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Nat Geo, PBS, SKY etc.

Patrick 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.

Broadcaster, 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.

 

Gillian Joseph is a presenter of Sky News Sunrise at weekends. Gillian joined Sky News in 2005 and has presented Sky News’ late evening strands, including Sky News at Ten and Live at Five. She has broken several stories live on air including, the death of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in 2006, and the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania in which 5 girls were killed before the gunman took his own life.

 

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.

 

 

Kirsty is the presenter of World News Today, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World. She is a regular presenter for Front Row on Radio Four and has also been a stand in anchor for The World News Tonight and various other programmes.

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.

 

Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, presents Martin Lewis’ It Pays To Watch on Five, and ITV1’s Tonight money shows. He’s also GMTV’s in-house expert, as well as occupying regular slots on Radio 1 & 2. In print he’s a columnist for the News of The World and author of three bestsellers. Yet he’s best known for his website MoneySavingExpert.com, now a national institution with over four million monthly users.

 

Sue MacGregor is one of BBC Radio's most familiar voices; she has even been described (by the Times) as "Simply the best female presenter radio has produced".

                                                     

Denis MacShane MP has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of government as a Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign Office and deputy Foreign Secretary.

 

 

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.

 

Award winning journalist and broadcaster, Penny Marshall, is a Special Correspondent for ITV's News at Ten. She writes regularly for the Mail and the Times and is also a frequent presenter on BBC Radio 4.

 

An experienced presenter and reporter Emma now works for BBC Look North in Hull. During her career Emma has worked for most of the main terrestrial UK broadcasters within a variety of specialisations. Her expertise ranges from general news and current affairs, sport, business and economics, consumer affairs and politics.

 

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 Saturday Breakfast and the Sunday Afternoon Show on London's Biggest Conversation, the talk radio station, LBC 97.3

 

  Tessa Mayes currently writes the Royal Blog for the Daily Telegraph . She is also working with feature film companies developing documentary movie projects.

 

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.

 

Louise Minchin is one of the BBC's top journalists and presenters. She currently presents Breakfast and Real Rescues on on BBC One, and is one of the BBC News Channel's main anchors. She is also a regular presenter of the BBC's One O'clock News.

In April 2010 Louise was a guest presenter for a week on The One Show, where she interviewed Meat Loaf and Louis Theroux.

Ealier this year, she presented her 3rd series of Missing Live, on BBC One. As a result of appeals made during the programme over a dozen missing people have been reunited with their families.

 

Maria Misra teaches history at Oxford University. She recently wrote and presented the Channel 4 series An Indian Affair and is a regular contributor to the Saturday Review on Radio 4.

 

Robert is ITN's European Correspondent for ITV News and was previously their Washington Correspondent. He assumed the role at the start of 2002 after five years as ITN's Diplomatic & Foreign Affairs Editor. From 1991 to 1996 he was ITN's Middle East Correspondent and he won the "International News Prize" at the 1996 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his reporting that year of the fighting on the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

 

Television and radio presenter Juliet Morris is a well-known face in the world of broadcasting. Juliet left Newsround in 1995 to present BBC Breakfast News for three years and has since fronted a wide range of factual and current affairs programmes for the BBC including House Detectives, The Travel Show and The Heaven and Earth Show. She was previously a reporter on BBC's Countryfile.

 

  Nina is a News Correspondent for ITV News, covering all the arts and media stories - she covers the Oscars in LA and the Golden Globes, has interviewed all the major screen stars with exclusives including Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Jude Law.

 

Sir David Nicholas joined ITN in 1960. In 1963 he became the Deputy Editor and was Editor and Chief Executive between 1977 and 1989. During this time he started News at Ten in 1967, News at One in 1972, Channel 4 News in 1982 and ITN's service to foreign broadcasters and airlines, World News, in 1986. Sir David produced ITN's special news events, general election coverage, US Presidential elections, the Apollo Moon Exploration programmes, budget day programmes and royal events during his career at ITN.

 

Bridgid is one of the most recognisable faces of Channel 4 News.  As well as regularly co-presenting, she is currently the Money Reporter, covering all areas of personal finance, consumer news, business and economics for Channel 4 News at Noon.

 

 

36 year old Keme Nzerem is an award winning reporter for Channel 4 News. As well as co-presenting Channel 4 News, he also presents More4 News.

Susan Osman went to China early in December 2009 and has made a big impression at CRI - China Radio International. (The biggest radio station in the world). She hosts a programme called the Beijing Hour with Susan Osman, a current affairs hour which is broadcast in 65 languages around the world.  

 

 

 

Nicholas Owen is a Presenter with BBC News, which he re-joined in February 2007. 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.

 

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.

 

Steve Richards is Chief Political Commentator for The Independent and also presents GMTV’s Sunday Programme, Radio 4’s A Week in Westminster and Radio 4’s political quiz show, Parliamentary Questions, now in its tenth series. He appears regularly on News 24’s Head to Head programme.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

Nina de Roy is a business presenter at Sky News. Prior to joining Sky, she spent five years as a reporter and anchor at the Emmy award-winning station Bloomberg Television.

 

Julian Rush is the Science & Environment Correspondent of Channel 4 News and he has recently taken on the Defence brief as well. His flair and enthusiasm for accessible explanation, investigation and analysis of the wide range of complex subjects he covers has been recognised with several major TV industry awards.

 

 

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

 

 

Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter. He is currently the business Presenter on Radio 4's Today Programme. He won the Plain English Campaign award for Broadcaster of the year for his work in debunking the language used by business and finance. For two years running he was Proshare personality of the year for his work in reporting on the world of shares and investments.

 

Mary Ann Sieghart writes a weekly column for the Independent, mainly about politics, and presents Profile on Radio 4. Until recently, she also presented Newshour on the BBC World Service. She has appeared regularly on Question Time, Any Questions and Newsnight, as well as chairing The Brains Trust on BBC2 and The World This Week on Channel 4. Until recently, she was Assistant Editor and columnist at the Times.

 

 

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.

 

 

For 45 years, Peter Sissons has been British television's most experienced presenter of News. During 25 years at 1TN, and 20 at the BBC, he has presented almost every network news programme on terrestrial television.

 

 

Jon Snow is the presenter of Britain's award-winning Channel 4 News. Jon has also hosted a wide range of discussion programmes and a number of high-profile documentaries for Channel 4, the most recent being War on Terror Trial, Bloody Sunday Debate, Snow in Japan, The Emillionaire Show and Secrets of the Honours System. Jon was presented with the prestigious Richard Dimbleby Award for his outstanding contribution to the world of news and current affairs at the 2005 BAFTA Television Awards, and he was named Journalist of the Year at the 2005 Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards.

Julia Somerville began her career in broadcasting when she joined the BBC in 1972 as a sub-editor in the Radio Newsroom. She became a chief-sub and then a reporter and was made Labour Affairs Correspondent in 1981. In 1983 she was recruited by BBC Television News to present the Nine O’clock News. In 1987 Julia joined ITN. During the next 14 years she presented News at Ten, the Lunchtime News and launched the ITN News Channel. She left ITN in 2001. She is currently Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Government Art Collection.

 

 

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.

 

Moira Stuart is currently reading the news on Chris Evans' BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Isla Traquair is a reporter and presenter for Channel 5 News.

 

 

Sasha can currently be seen on Sky News, presenting news bulletins on high profile daytime shows, including Sky News Today with Dermot Murnaghan. She also regularly anchors the weekday evening news between 8pm and 10pm, and can also be seen fronting the news at weekends.

 

Justin is the BBC North America Editor. In October 2009 he joined the presenting team on the Today Programme on Radio Four.

 

  Romilly Weeks is a presenter and correspondent on ITV News. She combines presenting weekend bulletins on the channel with reporting across home and foreign news stories.

 

 

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. Tim also makes and presents documentaries, and is a former correspondent and presenter at ITN.

 

 

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.