Kasia Madera is a Chief BBC News Presenter on BBC World News & the BBC News Channel with over 20 years of broadcasting experience. Kasia was one of the first international broadcasters to report live from the Poland-Ukraine border at the start of the Ukraine war, witnessing as thousands fled. Of Polish heritage Kasia is bilingual and was able to sensitively interview many refugees in Polish and Ukrainian. One of her many interviews was used in the BBC News Channel’s RTS Award nomination tape. More recently Kasia anchored BBC News from the NATO summit in Madrid as well as played a role in the extensive coverage of the UK's mourning period for Her Majesty, Queen Elisabeth II. Kasia broadcast from...
Kasia Madera is a Chief BBC News Presenter on BBC World News & the BBC News Channel with over 20 years of broadcasting experience.
Kasia was one of the first international broadcasters to report live from the Poland-Ukraine border at the start of the Ukraine war, witnessing as thousands fled. Of Polish heritage Kasia is bilingual and was able to sensitively interview many refugees in Polish and Ukrainian. One of her many interviews was used in the BBC News Channel’s RTS Award nomination tape.
More recently Kasia anchored BBC News from the NATO summit in Madrid as well as played a role in the extensive coverage of the UK’s mourning period for Her Majesty, Queen Elisabeth II. Kasia broadcast from outside Buckingham Palace on the night of the Queen’s death as well as spending hours interviewing mourners in the legendary Queue to file past Her Majesty’s coffin in the Palace of Westminster.
From breaking the UK’s first full Covid lockdown in March 2020, Kasia was a reassuring presence throughout this time, regularly hosting the BBC Papers Review. Kasia was live on air to break the news that Boris Johnson was admitted into intensive care, a clip used in Charlie Brooker’s Anti-Viral Wipe.
Kasia is as confident on set as on location. She has proven versatility from extensive experience in breaking news on location, from covering floods in Germany in 2021 to rolling in the early hours of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, she broke the disappearance of flight MH370 in 2014, a clip used in the new Netflix documentary, Flight MH370: The Plane That Disappeared.
Kasia’s original stories have featured across BBC News platforms, including BBC Network News, BBC Breakfast, Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, Ukrainecast and the World Service Global News podcasts, as well as BBC News Online and digital platforms like BBC IPlayer.
Kasia was a regular presenter of Outside Source, the graphics-based explainer format programme which was popular on digital platforms. For over ten years she was a regular presenter on BBC Newsday, the fast-paced Asia facing tv breakfast programme.
Interrupting scheduled programming on BBC One, Kasia broke the news of Nelson Mandela’s death in 2013. She anchored straight after the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony when the BBC News Channel recorded its highest viewing figures.
Kasia is an extremely experienced events host and gets repeat bookings from high profile organisations including hosting on a number of occasions the United Nations Population Fund’s Annual Leader’s Meeting and the International Advertising Association’s Creativity 4 Better conferences. Kasia also has immense experience in hosting webinars and online events for the consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the think tank Emerging Europe. Kasia adds glamour to awards ceremonies and has regularly hosted the International Association of Press Clubs’ Freedom of Speech Awards as well as the Emerging Europe Business Awards. As a Chief BBC News Presenter, Kasia regularly represents the broadcaster on behalf of BBC Studios.
