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This is a list of newsreaders and journalists currently employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.
Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4, as well as solely for BBC Sounds.
The BBC has over 5,500 journalists [1] based both in the United Kingdom and abroad. BBC appointments can be short- or long-term; for example, reporter Peter Bowes revealed on BBC News (broadcast live on 8 September 2020) that Los Angeles has been his home for 25 years.
Many presenters listed here contribute to various BBC News programmes, and some are involved in other BBC projects. Additionally, certain BBC News presenters offer relief presentation for programmes airing on these channels. It's important to note that this list excludes presenters of broadcasts simulcast from the BBC News channel on BBC One overnight or during weekday mornings on BBC Two.
The presenters listed below often contribute to various BBC News programmes and may have roles in other departments within the BBC. Additionally, some BBC News presenters not listed here occasionally fill in on programs broadcast on this channel. Noteworthy exceptions are the presenters of the domestic programmes BBC Breakfast, BBC One bulletins, and BBC Newsnight simulcast on the domestic feed.
A significant change occurred on April 3, 2023, when the BBC consolidated its domestic and international rolling news channels into a unified operation. To spearhead news broadcasts on the merged channel during weekdays, the BBC appointed six (original) "chief presenters". This has since grown to twelve. Among them, nine are based in London, while two operate from Washington DC and one operates out of the BBC News studio in Singapore. [4]
The programmes where the presenter is the lead presenter are shown here in bold. Chief presenters work across BBC One, BBC Two and primarily the BBC News Channel. The chief presenters broadcast on the channel between 12:00 and 8:00 London time during weekdays. Chief presenters will front BBC News coverage of editorially significant events on weekends. News broadcasts outside of these hours, and on weekends are fronted by other BBC presenters, many of which previously appeared on the domestic and international rolling news channels prior to their merger.
Presenter | Location | Programme(s) |
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Matthew Amroliwala | London | BBC News, Verified Live , BBC News at One |
Sally Bundock | BBC News, World Business Report [5] | |
Christian Fraser | BBC News, The Context | |
Lucy Hockings | BBC News, BBC News Now | |
Maryam Moshiri | BBC News, BBC News at One , BBC Weekend News The World Today [6] ', Talking Business | |
Clive Myrie | BBC News, BBC News at One, BBC News at Six , BBC News at Ten , BBC Weekend News [7] | |
Ben Brown | BBC News, BBC News at One , BBC News at Six , BBC News at Ten , BBC Weekend News [5] | |
Huw Edwards | BBC News, BBC News at Six , BBC News at Ten , BBC Weekend News , Election Night, Politics Live | |
Annita McVeigh | BBC News, BBC News at One , BBC Weekend News [5] | |
Geeta Guru-Murthy | BBC News, BBC News at One , BBC Weekend News [5] | |
Caitríona Perry | Washington | BBC News, BBC World News America |
Sumi Somaskanda | ||
Steve Lai | Singapore | Newsday , Asia Business Report [8] |
The list below reflects presenters' normal postings, but can be posted to cover other studios
Presenter | Base | Notes |
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Lucy Grey | London | |
Celia Hatton | ||
Frankie McCamley | ||
Rich Preston | ||
Vishala Sri-Pathma | ||
Lewis Vaughan Jones | ||
Anjana Gadgil | ||
Rajini Vaidyanathan | ||
Azadeh Moshiri | ||
Nicky Schiller | ||
Catherine Byaruhanga | ||
Tanya Beckett | ||
Lukwesa Burak | ||
Nancy Kacungira | Currently on maternity leave [9] | |
Samantha Simmonds | ||
Lauren Taylor | ||
Kylie Pentelow | ||
Anna Foster | ||
Lyse Doucet | Presents on location | |
Ben Thompson | London/Salford | BBC Breakfast Relief presenters |
Ben Boulos | ||
Luxmy Gopal | ||
Sarah Campbell | ||
Mariko Oi | Singapore | |
Monica Miller | ||
Arunoday Mukharji | ||
Suranjana Tewari | ||
Helena Humphrey | Washington DC | |
Carl Nasman | ||
Katty Kay | US Election Night presenter | |
Waihiga Mwaura | Nairobi | Focus on Africa presenter |
Rhoda Odhiambo |
The broadcasters mentioned below frequently contribute to various BBC Radio programmes and may hold roles in different departments within the BBC. Moreover, some BBC Radio hosts not listed here occasionally step in on programmes aired on this channel.
Presenter | Programme(s) |
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Harvey Cook [10] | BBC News |
Tina Daheley | Zoe Ball breakfast show |
Jeremy Vine | Jeremy Vine |
Presenter | Programme(s) |
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Sean Farrington | Wake Up to Money |
Rick Edwards | 5 Live Breakfast |
Rachel Burden | |
Nicky Campbell | Nicky Campbell |
Lucy Grey | 5 Live Breakfast |
Naga Munchetty | Naga Munchetty |
Nihal Arthanayake | Nihal Arthanayake, Must Watch |
Chris Warburton | Saturday Breakfast, Sunday Breakfast, In Short |
Eleanor Oldroyd | Saturday Breakfast |
Sam Walker | Sunday Breakfast |
Adrian Chiles | Chiles on Friday [12] |
Tony Livesey | 5 Live Drive |
Clare McDonnell | |
Stephen Nolan | Stephen Nolan |
Dotun Adebayo | Up All Night |
Laura McGhie | |
Colin Murray | |
Patrick Kielty | |
Helen Skelton |
Presenter | Programme(s) | Notes |
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James Copnall | Newsday | Alternate |
Julian Worricker | Weekend | |
Rob Young | ||
Andrew Peach | Newshour, The Newsroom | |
Karin Giannone | Outside Source | |
James Reynolds | ||
Nancy Kacungira | ||
Owen Bennett-Jones | Newshour | Alternate (on rotation) |
James Coomarasamy | ||
James Menendez | ||
Lyse Doucet | ||
Julian Marshall | ||
Tim Franks | ||
Valerie Sanderson | The Newsroom | |
Roger Hearing | Business Matters | |
Pooneh Ghoddoosi | BBC Partner Hub |
♦ = Presenter
The list provided indicates the usual assignments of correspondents. In instances of significant global events, like the Libyan crisis in 2011 or the Gaza conflict in 2023, foreign correspondents may be temporarily reassigned from their regular locations to cover these stories on a rotational basis. During such times, they are often labelled as "World Affairs Correspondents" or, if in Europe, as "Europe Correspondents." Subsequently, they return to their usual assignments. Additionally, this temporary reassignment may occur to cover holidays, primarily in July and August, as well as during Christmas periods. The BBC has a variety of specialist positions also including Regional Editors who are often shared across the world service output also.
World Affairs
Europe
Asia/Pacific
| North America
Middle East
Africa
Latin America
|
Only network correspondents are listed, but additional correspondents from national and regional news teams also report for the network.
England
| Scotland
Wales
Ireland
|
Politics
Family & Education
Home & Legal Affairs
Security
Defence
Diplomatic and Royal
Economics
Business
| Health
Social Affairs
Religious Affairs
Transport
Technology
Science
Environment and Climate
Culture, Arts and Media
Sport
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BBC News employs a number of business and sports presenters to anchor sections of news programmes.
Presenter | Regular shifts | Notes |
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Rob Bonnet | Today | |
Mike Bushell | BBC Breakfast , BBC News Channel [69] | |
Reshmin Chowdhury | BBC World News, BBC News Channel | |
Katherine Downes | Sportsday | |
Russell Fuller | BBC World Service, 5 Live | |
Karthi Gnanasegaram | Today , 5 Live, BBC News Channel, BBC Weekend News , Saturday Sportsday, BBC Breakfast | |
Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes | BBC News Channel, BBC Weekend News , Saturday Sportsday | |
Damian Johnson | BBC News Channel | |
Jonathan Legard | Today , 5 Live, BBC News Channel | |
Gary Lineker | Match of the Day | |
Garry Richardson | Today | |
Tim Hague | BBC Sport | |
Tulsen Tollett | BBC World News, BBC News Channel | |
Olly Foster | Relief | |
Will Perry | ||
Azi Farni | ||
Hugh Ferris | ||
John Watson | ||
Steven Wyeth | ||
Marc Edwards | ||
Chetan Pathak | ||
Laura McGhie | ||
Gavin Ramjaun | ||
Louisa Pilbeam [70] |
Presenter | Regular shifts | Notes |
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Sally Bundock | BBC World News and World Business Report | Relief presenter |
Sean Farrington | Wake Up to Money , Today (BBC Radio 4) | |
Will Bain | Wake Up to Money , Today (BBC Radio 4) | |
Tanya Beckett | BBC News, World Business Report | |
Aaron Heslehurst | Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst, World Business Report , BBC News Channel | |
Paul Lewis | BBC Breakfast , Money Box | |
Lerato Mbele | Africa Business Report | |
Hannah Miller | BBC Breakfast | |
Vishala Sri Pathma | BBC News Channel, World Business Report | Relief presenter |
Samantha Simmonds | BBC News Channel, , World Business Report | |
Ben Thompson | BBC Breakfast , BBC World News, BBC Business, BBC News Channel, World Business Report | |
Nina Warhurst | BBC Breakfast |
BBC Weather is delivered by a team of Met Office broadcast meteorologists to deliver forecasts across its range of television and radio services. Most forecasters work across all mediums and shifts.
Presenter | Programme(s) | Notes |
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Tom Brook | Talking Movies , Talking Television | |
Sophie Ikenye | Focus on Africa | |
Lukwesa Burak | ||
Waihiga Mwaura | ||
Lerato Mbele | In Business Africa | |
Nancy Kacungira | ||
Ade Adepitan | The Travel Show | |
Benjamin Zand | The Travel Show , Our World | Producer |
Evan Davis | The Bottom Line | |
Spencer Kelly | Click | |
Jo Coburn | Politics Live | |
Zeinab Badawi | HARDtalk | |
Stephen Sackur | ||
Rob Bonnet | HARDtalk Extra Time | |
Tim Sebastian | The Doha Debates | |
Samira Ahmed | Newswatch | |
John Simpson | Unspun world | |
Linda Yueh | Talking Business | |
David Coulthard | Inside F1, F1: Behind the Wheel | |
Stacey Dooley | Stacey Dooley Investigates (shown on BBC Three) | |
Tanya Beckett | Witness, Talking Business | |
James Naughtie | Meet the Author | |
Rebecca Jones | ||
Chloe Tilley | World Have Your Say [71] | |
Levi Jouavel | The Catch Up [72] | |
Kirsty Grant | ||
Callum Tulley |
Newsnight is the BBC's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. The programme is broadcast on weekdays at 22:30 on BBC Two and the UK feed of BBC News channel; it is also available on BBC iPlayer.
Andrew Ferguson Neil is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster who is chairman of The Spectator. He was editor of The Sunday Times from 1983 to 1994. He has presented various political programmes on the BBC and on Channel 4.
Julia Hartley-Brewer is a British radio presenter, political journalist and newspaper columnist. She hosts her own eponymous radio show on Talkradio simulcast on TalkTV - "Julia Hartley-Brewer" weekdays from 10am.
Giles Robin Patrick Coren is a British columnist, food writer, and television and radio presenter. He has been a restaurant critic for The Times newspaper since 2002, and was named Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005.
Emily Maitlis is a British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC. She was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight until the end of 2021, and is currently a presenter of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio.
Mark Mardell is a British journalist, formerly the presenter of The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4. He had previously served as BBC News's Europe editor, and provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election between 1992 and 2005, before he became North America editor.
Jonathan B. Sopel is a British journalist, television presenter and podcaster. He was formerly BBC News's North America editor; chief political correspondent for the domestic news channel BBC News; a presenter on the Politics Show on BBC One and the BBC News channel; and from 2013 to 2014, the main presenter of Global on BBC World News. Since 2022, he has been presenting the Global daily news podcast The News Agents.
Clive Augustus Myrie is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC. He is one of the BBC's chief news presenters and correspondents. Since August 2021 he has been the host of the long-running BBC quiz shows Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind.
Sally Elizabeth Bundock is a British news chief presenter for BBC News, who presents The Briefing on BBC One and the BBC News Channel. She joined World Business Report in September 2002 and she presents its early morning edition, programming viewed mostly by audiences in European and international markets. Bundock has presented the 5am hour on BBC One, BBC World News and the BBC News channel since the early 2000s.
Robert Adam Fleming is a Scottish journalist and presenter for BBC News. He was formerly its Chief Political correspondent, Brussels correspondent, and has previously worked for Daily Politics and Newsround. He co-presented the podcast and television programme Brexitcast, before becoming lead presenter of its successor, Newscast.
Yalda Hakim is an Australian broadcast journalist, news presenter, and documentary maker. She was one of the chief presenters at BBC News broadcasting in English in the UK and globally. After her family left Afghanistan and settled in Australia in 1986, she grew up in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta and went on to study journalism. She started her career at SBS Television, moving to BBC TV in 2012. In July 2023, it was announced that she was leaving the BBC to join Sky News.
Norman Stuart Smith is a British journalist. He became the chief political correspondent of BBC News in 2011, and was its assistant political editor from 2014 to 2020.
The Context, also styled as The Context with Christian Fraser, is a live current affairs programme that airs Monday to Friday on the international and UK feeds of the BBC News channels from 20:00 GMT till 22:00 GMT.
Geeta Guru-Murthy is an English television journalist. Since 2013 she has presented mainly morning bulletins, including BBC News at Nine, and bulletins on BBC World News, BBC Two, BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
Vicki Young is a British journalist.
Christopher Richard Mason is an English journalist, who has been the political editor of BBC News since 2022. He is also a presenter of the podcast and television programme Newscast. He was formerly the BBC's political correspondent.
Lewis Goodall is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Raised in Birmingham, he worked as a journalist for Granada Studios before becoming a political correspondent for Sky News. He later became policy editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.
GB News is a British free-to-air, opinion-orientated news television and radio channel. The channel is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus and YouTube. An audio simulcast of the station is also available on DAB+ radio.
This is a timeline of the history of GB News, a free-to-air television and radio news channel in the United Kingdom.
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