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Luisa Baldini | |
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| Born | Luisa Baldini |
| Education | St Helens School Haileybury School Exeter University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | News Direct 97.3 EuroNews Five News BBC Breakfast BBC News |
Luisa Baldini (born in Tanzania) is an Anglo-Italian presentation and communication expert, previously having worked for BBC News as a Deputy Royal Correspondent among many other assignments.
Luisa attended St Helens School in North London as a boarding pupil before attending Haileybury School in Hertfordshire.
After studying modern languages at the University of Exeter and then a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Falmouth University, Baldini worked as a reporter for London-based rolling news radio station News Direct 97.3FM, she then moved to pan-European satellite channel in Lyon, France EuroNews, followed by ITN in London, where her first full-time television reporting role was at Five News .
In 2002 she moved to the BBC, first as a reporter to BBC Breakfast, then to the one o'clock news. She also became a dedicated late reporter for the 10 O'Clock News under the editorship of Sir Craig Oliver. Her work also appeared on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
Being trilingual (she speaks Italian, English and French), [1] Baldini has been sent to Italy to report on major news stories for BBC News, including the death of the Pope John Paul II, the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, the trial concerning the Murder of Meredith Kercher, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the Costa Concordia accident.
In 2004, Otis Ferry contacted Baldini before he and his friends raided the House of Commons in support of the hunting debate. Although Baldini reported it to news editors, the BBC did not act or report it to the police in advance of the incident, causing a furore. [2]
Baldini left the BBC in 2014 moving to New York with her husband's job, returning to the UK in 2017 when she set up Composure Media, a presentation and communication training business.
Baldini is married with two children. She is the granddaughter to Sir Horace Phillips, a former British diplomat and former ambassador to Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and High Comissioner to Tanzania.
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