Nina is the Arts Editor at ITV News. Her role involves specialist arts and media coverage for ITV, including covering the Oscars every year and interviewing the biggest names in film, music and TV. She is also a regular contributor to ITV programmes on entertainment, and popular culture. She is a member of Bafta and regularly chairs the press launches of new ITV dramas. Nina regularly reports for ITV’s On Assignment programme, with past documentaries including groundbreaking treatments in San Francisco in the battle against Aids and HIV, the moves to find alternative food sources in the world and Morocco’s booming film industry. Nina started out at the BBC as a trainee, then working on regional and national television and...
Nina is the Arts Editor at ITV News. Her role involves specialist arts and media coverage for ITV, including covering the Oscars every year and interviewing the biggest names in film, music and TV. She is also a regular contributor to ITV programmes on entertainment, and popular culture.
She is a member of Bafta and regularly chairs the press launches of new ITV dramas.
Nina regularly reports for ITV’s On Assignment programme, with past documentaries including groundbreaking treatments in San Francisco in the battle against Aids and HIV, the moves to find alternative food sources in the world and Morocco’s booming film industry.
Nina started out at the BBC as a trainee, then working on regional and national television and radio, including presenting Asian Perspective for 3 years, a live news and current affairs programme on BBC Radio Five Live. She joined ITV News in 2002 after leaving the BBC.
In 2007 Nina was awarded an Honorary doctorate for Services to the Media.
She is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, and for the British Asian Trust. and is a Governor at the National Centre for Writing and The Young Norfolk Arts Trust.
Nina is also Patron of Akademi, the South Asian Dance Company, the Norwich Film Festival, the domestic abuse charity Leeway, the Autumn Arts Festival and an Ambassador for Kidney Research UK, for which she frequently fundraises for.
She is a judge of the Bafta Film and TV Awards, the RTS news awards, and has judged the Grierson Documentary awards.
Nina is an experienced public speaker and event facilitator. She has also hosted and spoken a variety of events including Latitude Festival, Women of the World Festival, the RTS awards, and has held ‘in conversation with’ interviews with celebrities like Rupert Evertt and Michael Palin.
In 2025, she was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Society of Arts.
Amongst the non-news programmes Nina has appeared on are The Weakest Link, Unforgotten and Pointless.
