Anna Botting

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Anna Botting
Born
Anna Elizabeth Botting

(1967-11-04) 4 November 1967 (age 56)
Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Education St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Cardiff University
OccupationNewsreader
Years active1991–present
Notable credit Sky News

Anna Elizabeth Botting (born 4 November 1967) is an English news presenter with Sky News, a broadcasting network based in the United Kingdom. She currently presents Sky News from 21:00 until midnight from Monday to Thursday. [1] Prior to the channel's rescheduling in July 2006, Botting presented The Sky Report , and from then until February 2007, she presented Sky News from 18:00 to 20:00 alongside Jeremy Thompson.

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Background

Botting, born in Cranleigh, Surrey, is the daughter of Douglas Botting, explorer and author, and Louise Botting, a company director and former broadcaster. She studied Geography at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, [2] before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. She took a postgraduate course in journalism at Cardiff University, before beginning work in Manchester as a researcher for a social action show for Granada Television. In 1991, Botting took a job with BBC North as a reporter for radio and TV. From here she became a presenter for the local news programme, Look North .

Botting joined Sky News in 1995, meaning that she is now one of the network's longest-serving presenters. She has presented a wide range of programmes on Sky, including: Sky News Today , Sky News at Ten , Live at Five , Sky News Tonight and The Sky Report .

Career at Sky

Anna Botting joined Sky News in 1995 as a reporter, before moving into the studio to anchor the news. [3] During the 1997 election Botting shadowed Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, day-in day-out, for the whole six weeks of the campaign. She was also the first journalist to arrive at Kensington Palace on the day Diana, Princess of Wales died.

Botting also covered the death of Pope John Paul II [4] and anchored coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from the studio. She was presenting on air when Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was ousted from office[ clarification needed ][ citation needed ].

In Summer 2006, whilst anchoring from Israel, Botting interviewed the British politician George Galloway about the Israel-Lebanon war. Galloway criticised Sky News, News Corporation and Botting in person for being biased towards Israel. [5]

Anna Botting notably won the Royal Television Society's news presenter of the year award in May 2012 and became the second woman to do so; [6] this followed her return from Japan and location anchoring work for Sky News following the tsunami of March 2011. She reported from Fukushima Nuclear Power Station and northwest Honshu Island in the aftermath of the disaster. Botting also anchored on location during the fall of Tripoli in 2011.

Botting had notably worked alongside the former Sky presenter Bob Friend before her popular partnership with Jeremy Thompson on Live at Five took off.

Botting appeared as herself in the 2014 science fiction action film Edge of Tomorrow , which stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

Botting led Sky News' coverage of the Funeral of Elizabeth II with Alastair Bruce on 19 September 2022.

Personal life

A keen rower during her time at university, Botting took part in BBC Three's The Other Boat Race. She was one of twelve public figures and Oxbridge alumni who trained and competed in their own version of the annual rowing event. [7] She captained the Oxford crew and her team won the contest.

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References

  1. ↑ "SkyPressOffice profile of Anna Botting". Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
  2. ↑ "St Edmund Hall, Oxford University: Famous Graduates" . Retrieved 6 July 2009.
  3. ↑ "My Mentor: Anna Botting on Jeremy Bowen". The Independent. London. 27 August 2007. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
  4. ↑ Pike, Caitlin (8 April 2005). "It was breaking news, but the TV companies had it planned for years". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 23 August 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
  5. ↑ "Sky's Anna Botting Takes on Galloway". Sky News Video. Retrieved 3 July 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Anna Botting | Sky News Press Office". Archived from the original on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "The Other Boat Race". BBC News. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
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