Kasia Madera is a Chief BBC News Presenter for BBC World News, the BBC News Channel and BBC News Polska, 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 Russia-Ukraine war, witnessing as thousands fled. Kasia, who is an accomplished linguist – fluent in both Polish and English, and proficient in French and Ukrainian – 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. Kasia has covered countless major news events across her career. She played a significant role in the extensive coverage of...
Kasia Madera is a Chief BBC News Presenter for BBC World News, the BBC News Channel and BBC News Polska, 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 Russia-Ukraine war, witnessing as thousands fled. Kasia, who is an accomplished linguist – fluent in both Polish and English, and proficient in French and Ukrainian – 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.
Kasia has covered countless major news events across her career. She played a significant role in the extensive coverage of the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Kasia broadcast from outside Buckingham Palace on the night of the Queen’s death as well as spending hours interviewing mourners queueing to file past Her Majesty’s coffin in the Palace of Westminster.
From breaking the UK’s first 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 Antiviral Wipe (2020).
Kasia is as confident on location as she is on set. She has proven versatility from her extensive experience in breaking news on location, which includes covering Germany’s 2021 severe flood event, and broadcasting in the early hours after London’s Grenfell Tower fire (2017). In 2014, she broke the story of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a clip from her coverage was used in the 2023 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 for 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. For Kasia, a particular career highlight was presenting on the night of the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Kasia’s programme was simulcast on BBC One and attracted some of the BBC News Channel’s highest audience figures.
Kasia is an experienced events host and frequently receives repeat bookings from high profile organisations. Kasia has hosted the United Nations Population Fund’s Annual Leader’s Meeting several times, as well as the International Advertising Association’s Creativity 4 Better conferences. More recently, Kasia hosted the Polish-British Economic Forum and the NEPI Rockcastle Retailers Day, alongside continuing her partnership with the UNFPA.
Kasia also has also hosted webinars and online events for the consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and the thinktank 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.
Kasia lives in West London with her husband and two children.
