Presenter and journalist Tazeen Ahmad makes films for Dispatches for Channel 4 including titles Woman Only Jihad, Undercover Mother and Christmas Credit Crisis.

 

 

Samira Ahmed is a familiar face to viewers as an experienced presenter and correspondent for Channel 4 News. Previously a news correspondent and presenter for BBC News, BBC World and Newsnight, and a presenter at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin, Samira has reported extensively on crime, terrorism and the arts and was BBC Los Angeles correspondent.

 

Peter Allen is the Drivetime presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live. He was winner of the News Broadcaster Award Gold Medal at the Sony Radio Awards 2002.

 

 

Fiona’s work ranges from news, to features, to sport… She currently presents the evening news programme for ITV Border – but also makes films, the latest being a countryside series for ITV. She has also just finished co-presenting a local history series. 

 

Zeinab is currently presenting live news bulletins on BBC World interviewing guests on all the main international topics of the day.

 

 

Matthew Bannister is a journalist and broadcaster.

He presents Radio 4's weekly obituary programme Last Word and is also regularly heard on Radio 5 Live - most recently presenting the network's mid morning phone-in. He has also presented Broadcasting House and Saturday PM on Radio 4.

 

 

Matt Barbet is a news correspondent and presenter for Channel Five News. He moved to Channel Five in October 2007 after spending four years as one of the main presenters at BBC London.

 

Richard has been a familiar face on British television for more than 25 years fronting everything from BBC and ITV news programmes to ITV’s This Morning and appearing on quiz shows.

 

Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes - from light entertainment to documentaries.

She's known to young and old for her exploits in the jungle of ITV's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and had to eat a variety of live insects.

 

After several years as BBC TV News sports correspondent, Rob Bonnet spent between 1995-2005 as the main sports presenter on BBC Breakfast and occasionally presented the programme itself. He now presents the BBC World/BBC News 24 programme "Extra Time".

 

 A regular co-host on radio and TV, Rosie appears on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, Question Time, Any Questions, The Late Review and various other talk shows and arts programmes. Rosie makes regular appearances on news programmes and current affairs. She was the subject of a one-off documentary on her editorship of The Independent.

Fiona Bruce is one of the country’s top journalists and presenters. She anchors the BBC’s flagship Ten O’Clock News and has co-hosted Crimewatch for the BBC for eight years. She has been announced as the new presenter of the Antiques Roadshow, the BBC’s top rated factual programme that has been running for thirty years.

 

Michael Brunson recently retired as ITN's Political Editor, a position which he held since 1986.  As ITN's Political Editor, he reported on every recent political event in Britain. In June 1991 Michael Brunson's interview with Margaret Thatcher made headlines when she revealed to him her wish to take her seat in the House of Lords, and told him of her thoughts as her time as Prime Minister drew to a close. Brunson again interviewed Mrs Thatcher at length in November 1991, exactly a year after her dramatic resignation, in which she made known her views on European economic and monetary union.

 

Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5. His reports filmed with the Nairobi-based cameraman, Mohamed Amin alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy. They were shown worldwide, to an audience of billions. They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved well over a million lives.

 

Jonathan Charles has spent the past few years going in and out of some of the most dangerous places on earth. Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya are just a few of the wars and conflicts that he covered during his two decades as a BBC television and radio foreign correspondent. Jonathan now reads the news, as a freelance presenter, on BBC1, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

 

Benjamin Cohen is well known both as an entrepreneur and as a television journalist.

He has been both the youngest ever director of a public company and the youngest correspondent on a network news programme. He regularly speaks on his experiences in the dot.com boom, privacy, e-commerce, new media and diversity.

 

Ellie Crisell is key presenting talent and a journalist at the BBC. Until recently she was the presenter of Newsround on BBC1. She anchored the programme between April 2003 and March 2008. Ellie is now the presenter of the BBC1 8pm bulletin and a regular presenter on the BBC News Channel. She has also presented for BBC London and appeared as a reporter and pundit on children's issues on Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and the One O'clock news. Ellie previously worked for ITN, presenting radio and television news.

 

 

Daljit Dhaliwal is currently the anchor of Foreign Exchange, a weekly international news discussion program on American Public TV based in Washington D.C.. She has been broadcasting for 15 years and is a familiar face to viewers across the world, the U.S.A. & the U.K. She has worked as an anchor for CNN International in Atlanta, presenting Your World Today, a 2-hour live news and interview show and reported and hosted other CNN shows as a reporter and host as well as for BBC World.

 

Navdip Dhariwal is a well known and senior journalist in BBC news. She has just returned from a foreign correspondent posting in Delhi as the BBC's South Asia correspondent working in Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka covering the region for BBC World TV and Radio.

 

Sarah is a well established journalist and presenter with extensive experience of live television and radio. She currently presents BBC Wales’ flagship news programme Good Morning Wales covering all aspects of international and national news and interviewing guests from Prime Ministers to snake charmers. Sarah also presented the weekly business programme Wales@Work for five years and won three Work World media awards from the Work Foundation.

 

 

 

Carl Dinnen is a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News, Channel Four News at Noon and More4 News.

 

 

Mark Easton is the BBC’s Home Editor, an award winning documentary-maker and news correspondent. He appears regularly on BBC television and radio as well as writing for BBC Online and many newspapers and magazines.

 

Gwenan is a trained journalist and has worked with BBC Television News for over 10 years as presenter/reporter.

 

Maya Even presented  "The Money Programme", the BBC's financial and business flagship programme for two years.  Prior to this she worked for Channel Four and ITN as the presenter of "House to House", the daily parliament and politics programme.

 

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

 

 

 

Elizabeth Filippouli has a wide broadcast and print media experience. She is now based in London and works for the global TV network Al Jazeera International as a Program Presenter and Current Affairs Correspondent. She has presented flagship programs like “People & Power” and “Witness” and she also produces independent documentaries.

 

Sandy Gall's career with ITN spanned nearly 30 years, from 1963 to 1992. He was part of the original team of News at Ten- the first half-hour television news in Britain launched in 1967 and now ITN's flagship programme- and became one of its senior newscasters.

 

 

Jane Garvey is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

 

Margaret Gilmore is a familiar and authoritative face on our TV screens, highly respected for her writing and broadcasting talents, her specialist knowledge and analytical skills, her wide range of contacts and her appeal to the audience. Her career in television, radio and newspapers has been a distinguished one, including most recently six years as senior Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. She is also an Associate Fellow with the lead security think tank RUSI where she frequently writes and lectures.

 

Adrian Goldberg is currently presenting the overnight show on TalkSport from 1am to 6am, from Tuesday to Friday.

Former BBC1 Watchdog and Politics Show presenter Adrian Goldberg has made his name as an independent film-maker, following the release of his controversial investigative documentary Manchester Disunited And Other Football Feuds.

 

Liam Halligan is Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management - one of the world's leading asset-management firms, with investments worth more than $5bn across Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Along with his role at PCM, Liam is also one of the UK's leading economics commentators. For the last six years he has written the highly-influential Economics Agenda column for the Sunday Telegraph - which was recently recognised with a coveted British Press Award.

Jacqui Hames is one of Britain’s best-known real life Detectives, having presented live TV appeals on the BBC flagship show Crimewatch every month for 16 yrs. After serving with the Metropolitan Police for over 25 yrs she is now seen regularly on GMTV and Sky News giving advice and commenting on news stories.

 

 

Jane is a trained broadcast journalist and presenter. She’s enjoyed a varied career, working for both ITV and BBC, specialising in news and current affairs and factual entertainment. Jane works in Radio and Television and particularly relishes the challenge of live broadcasting.

Until early 2008 Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman was the most senior policeman in charge of the UK’s counter terrorism policy and operations. He worked directly to the Cabinet and Prime Minister. Whilst in post he controlled the police operations that foiled 15 terrorist attacks and led to the conviction of 50 perpetrators. Previously in his police career he’d been a Chief Constable and in charge of the Met’s anti-drugs and anti-corruption teams. In his years as a police officer he’d seen service in some of the most contentious and difficult areas of policing.

 

Sharon Hendry is The Sun’s Senior Feature Writer responsible for general features and investigations across the paper.  

 

Nina is a presenter with ITV News, working across their network news programmes including the ITV Evening News.

Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Nina studied English Language and Linguistics at Durham University, before gaining a Post-graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

 

Emma Howard is a former BBC News presenter and reporter on both television and radio. As a news correspondent she worked for the One, Six and Ten O'clock News as well as Radio 4 and 5Live - and as a presenter she fronted Breakfast on BBC 1 and later presented on News 24 and Drive Time on 5Live.

 

Bettany is asked to write comment pieces for a number of national and international newspapers as well as to appear regularly as a commentator on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Nat Geo, PBS, SKY etc.

Patrick Jephson was born and raised in Ireland. He has a Masters Degree in Political Science from Cambridge University. After ten years as an officer in the Royal Navy he was selected to join the Royal Household, serving for eight years as Equerry and as the first and only Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to Diana, Princess of Wales. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for personal service to the Sovereign.

Broadcaster, journalist, author, conservationalist – Stanley Johnnson’s achievements are numerous, traveling the world in pursuit of animal welfare and spearheading environmental projects. Stanley has had many books published and regularly writes for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics – from politics and travel to society at large. He appears on television and radio, presenting documentaries for Channel Four as well as guesting on news, current affairs and feature programmes.

 

Allan has worked in radio and television news for more than twenty five years and has been a presenter with Sky News for the last ten.  He was on-air at the time of the death of the Queen Mother, and received praise in several newspapers for his sensitive handling of this sad event.  He also covered the fire at Buckingham Palace during the Queen's Golden Jubilee.  Among his many on-air discussions with political and business leaders, Allan obtained the first television interview with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams the day after the London Docklands bombing broke the IRA cease-fire in 1996.

Kirsty is the presenter of The World, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World and on BBC4 in the UK. Kirsty is also a regular presenter on the Radio 4 arts magazine programme Front Row. She is also a former presenter of Channel 4 News.

 

Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert presents Martin Lewis’ It Pays To Watch on Five and ITV1’s Tonight money shows. He’s also GMTV’s in-house expert, as well as regular slots on Radio 1 & 2. In print he’s a columnist for the News of The World and author of three bestsellers. Yet he’s best known for his website MoneySavingExpert.com, now a national institution with over 4million monthly users.

 

Jane Little is a journalist and presenter who combines specialist reporting on religion with a wide brief as presenter. She regularly sits in the chair of Woman’s Hour, Sunday, Last Word, and The World Tonight on BBC Radio Four.

 

Sue MacGregor is one of BBC radio's most familiar voices; she has even been described (by The Times) as "Simply the best female presenter radio has produced".

 

Award winning reporter Penny Marshall is the International Correspondent for ITV News.

 

Emma is currently working as a video journalist and newsreader for BBC Look North in Hull. She also worked for BBC Local TV in Coventry and Warwickshire. As well as reporting for the pilot interactive news service, she also presented breakfast bulletins and the lunchtime news for Midlands Today.

 

 

Tessa Mayes is an award-winning investigative journalist, commentator and author.

 

Sir Trevor McDonald became the first sole Presenter of News At Ten in 1992 and anchored the Late Evening News until December 2005. He also presents ITV's flagship current affairs programme - Tonight.

 

Lawrence is the Science Editor for ITN. During his career he has won many awards including; 2 BAFTAs for Channel 4 News and Best News or Outside Broadcast and 2 RTS awards for the best sports news report for the coverage of the drugs scandal at the Barcelona Olympics and the Kings Cross Disaster.

 

 

Louise Minchin is one of the BBC’s top journalists and presenters. As a news anchor, she regularly presents Breakfast on BBC One, and the One O’clock news, and has a regular slot on the BBC News Channel.

 

Maria Misra teaches history at Oxford University. She recently wrote and presented the Channel 4 series An Indian Affair and is a regular contributor to the Saturday Review on Radio 4.

 

Robert is ITN's European Correspondent for ITV News and was previously their Washington Correspondent. He assumed the role at the start of 2002 after five years as ITN's Diplomatic & Foreign Affairs Editor. From 1991 to 1996 he was ITN's Middle East Correspondent and he won the "International News Prize" at the 1996 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his reporting that year of the fighting on the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

 

Television and radio presenter Juliet Morris is a well-known face in the world of broadcasting. Juliet left Newsround in 1995 to present BBC Breakfast News for three years and has since fronted a wide range of factual and current affairs programmes for the BBC including House Detectives, The Travel Show and The Heaven and Earth Show. She's currently presenting BBC's Countryfile.

 

 

 

Nina is a News Correspondent for ITV News, covering all the arts and media stories - she covers the Oscars in LA and the Golden Globes, has interviewed all the major screen stars with exclusives including Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Jude Law.

 

Sir David Nicholas joined ITN in 1960. In 1963 he became the Deputy Editor and was Editor and Chief Executive between 1977 and 1989. During this time he started News at Ten in 1967, News at One in 1972, Channel 4 News in 1982 and ITN's service to foreign broadcasters and airlines, World News, in 1986. Sir David produced ITN's special news events, general election coverage, US Presidential elections, the Apollo moon exploration programmes, budget day programmes and royal events during his career at ITN.

 

Bridgid is one of the most recognisable faces of Channel 4 News.  As well as regularly co-presenting, she is currently the Money Reporter, covering all areas of personal finance, consumer news, business and economics for Channel 4 News at Noon.

 

 

34 year old Keme Nzerem is an award winning reporter for Channel 4 News. As well as co-presenting Channel 4 News, he also presents More4 News.

 

 

Susan currently works for BBC News on mainly overnights, when as most of us Brits are snuggled down the Americans are still awake and Asia is waking up. With an average audience of 37 million worldwide Susan is both a national and international presenter.

 

 

Nicholas Owen is a Presenter with BBC News, which he re-joined in February 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel Four News and News at Ten. He has also appeared in a wide range of other TV and radio programmes.

 

Nick Owen came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain. He is now the presenter of BBC Midlands Today.

 

Steve Richards is Chief Political Commentator for The Independent and also presents GMTV’s Sunday Programme, Radio 4’s A Week in Westminster and Radio 4’s political quiz show, Parliamentary Questions, now in its tenth series. He appears regularly on News 24’s Head to Head programme.

 

Angela Rippon has been a familiar face and voice in British broadcasting for over 40 years. The career of this award winning journalist has embraced an impressive variety of programmes on both radio and television for both Commercial and BBC stations in Britain, America and Australia.

 

Jamie Robertson is a highly experienced presenter of business programmes for the BBC, specialising in international finance, business and economics. As a lead presenter on the BBC World’s prestigious World Business Report he has covered subjects ranging from the dot.com boom to the collapse of Enron and the rise of the Chinese and Indian economies, interviewing the movers and shakers in global finance.

 

Nina de Roy is a presenter with the Association for International Broadcasting's award-winning station Bloomberg Television. She has covered a raft of high-profile stories from the death of Pope John Paul II to the killing of Alexander Litvinenko and Silvio Berlusconi's corruption trial.

 

Julian Rush is the Science & Environment Correspondent of Channel 4 News and he has recently taken on the Defence brief as well. His flair and enthusiasm for accessible explanation, investigation and analysis of the wide range of complex subjects he covers has been recognised with several major TV industry awards.

Selina has anchored flagship current affairs shows in both the UK and the USA. ITN first headhunted her in 1981 for its prestigious News At Ten. She then became the first woman to launch Breakfast Television in the UK, fronting the BBC’s Breakfast Time in 1983. Selina went on to break new ground with the UK’s first fashion magazine programme The Clothes Show, also for the BBC.

 

Tim Sebastian, the award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent, presented HARDtalk, BBC World's daily half-hour interview programme.

 

 

Barbara Serra is one of the launch faces of Al Jazeera's new English-language, International news channel. She will present the news from its London broadcast centre, and report from all over Europe.

 

 

Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter. He won the Plain English Campaign award for Broadcaster of the year for his work in debunking the language used by business and finance. For two years running he was Proshare personality of the year for his work in reporting on the world of shares and investments.

 

Mary Ann Sieghart is currently researching and writing a book about contemporary Britain, focusing on the big changes and social trends of the past ten years.

 

 

Dani Sinha has recently joined the presentation team at BBC London. She has built a strong fan base through her work at BBC South which she joined in March 2006.

 

Peter Sissons is probably British television's most experienced presenter of News. For nearly forty years he has worked for ITN, Channel Four, and the BBC- presenting all the main terrestrial bulletins

 

Sarah Smith is Wahington Correspondent for Channel 4 Sarah joined Channel 4 News as Scotland correspondent in 1998, reporting on the first elections to the new Scottish parliament. Over the last few years Sarah has regularly presented Channel 4 News and covered stories ranging from the US presidential elections, the Madrid train bombings (for which Channel 4 News won an international Emmy in 2004), to the resignation of Ian Duncan Smith and an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer.

 

 

Jon Snow is the presenter of Britain's award-winning Channel 4 News. Jon has also hosted a wide range of discussion programmes and a number of high-profile documentaries for Channel 4, the most recent being War on Terror Trial, Bloody Sunday Debate, Snow in Japan, The Emillionaire Show and Secrets of the Honours System. Jon was presented with the prestigious Richard Dimbleby Award for his outstanding contribution to the world of news and current affairs at the 2005 BAFTA Television Awards, and he was named Journalist of the Year at the 2005 Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards.

 

During a long and distinguished career in BBC Television News she has presented every type of bulletin including News After Noon, the early evening 5.40 News, News Review, The Nine O'Clock News, The Weekend News, The Six O'Clock News, and most recently the news bulletins on Sunday AM, The Politics Show and other weekend bulletins.

 

Tamzin is a presenter and correspondent with ITV's London Tonight. She took up the post of Entertainment Correspondent in 2004 and now hosts the programme twice a week, alongside Alastair Stewart.

 

Part of BBC World’s core business output for the last four years, Manisha Tank has gained worldwide acclaim for her breadth of knowledge, sharp questioning and her ability to bring highly complex subjects to ground level. After four years in London, Manisha is now based in New York, where she has taken up the helm at the US end of the show.

 

 

Alex Thomson is a familiar figure in British TV news as both an award-winning correspondent and anchor on ITN's Channel 4 News. He combines reporting on major national and international stories and war coverage with his studio presenting role on Channel 4's in-depth 7pm nightly news.

 

 

 

Isla Traquair is a reporter and presenter for Channel 5 News.

 

 

As a trained television journalist she can turn her hand to most topics. Daisy took a postgraduate in Television and Current Affairs Journalism at City University and is therefore adept at script writing and quickly simplifying complicated issues into everyday language. She has a strong understanding and appreciation of media law and ethical practices within journalism.

Justin Webb is currently the BBC's North America Editor. His career with the BBC has combined presentation of major news programmes on both radio and TV (The World Tonight, BBC Breakfast News and the One O'Clock News) with work 'in the field', as Europe correspondent.

 

 

Romilly Weeks is currently Royal Correspondent for ITV News.

 

 

Joanna Yarrow is one of Britain's leading sustainability experts, and combines her passion and experience with a flair for engaging broad audiences.