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Global (programme)
''Global'', styled also as ''Global with Matthew Amroliwala'' (as of 8 September 2014), is a news programme on BBC World News that premiered on 14 January 2013 with the relaunch of the channel from Broadcasting House. The programme was hosted initially by Jon Sopel who joined the channel from the domestic BBC News channel. Sopel regularly presented the programme on location around the world and in this case it is broadcast in part on the BBC News channel. Sopel was promoted to North America Editor in 2014, and was succeeded in September by Matthew Amroliwala. ''Global'' replaced ''The Hub'', which originally was an edition of ''World News Today'' and served as a news 'nerve centre' for South Asia and the Middle East, providing both the headlines, and detailed analysis of the global news agenda. Schedule ''Global'' is aired from 16:00–17:45pm and 18:00-18:15pm GMT (17:00–18:45pm and 19:00-19:15 pm BST in summer time), Monday to Thursday on BBC World News, split in-between by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC World News
BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. According to its corporate PR, the combined seven channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market share among all of its rivals, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2016/2017, part of the estimated 121 million weekly audience of all its operations. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. It broadcasts news bulletins, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interview shows. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd, part of the BBC's commercial group of companies, and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, not by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings is a New Zealand news presenter for the BBC, moderator, events host and media trainer. Her roles include anchoring ''Live with Lucy Hockings'' on BBC World News. Early life, education and early career Hockings was born on 7 April 1975 in Taranaki on New Zealand's North Island. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Auckland. Prior to joining the BBC, Hockings worked as a reporter for TVNZ. BBC First months Hockings joined the BBC as a producer in 1999, before being promoted to senior producer in 2000. Reporter As a reporter, Hockings has covered the September 11 attacks, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2004 tsunami, the death of Pope John Paul II, the 2005 London bombings and the capture of Saddam Hussein. Accent During her earlier presenting days, Hockings claimed her employers made attempts to "iron out" her accent, and that she was sent to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for "unsuccessful" elocution lessons. Films Hockings appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajesh Mirchandani
Rajesh Mirchandani is a communications executive and former British television journalist. He spent more than two decades reporting from around the world as a BBC correspondent and news anchor, covering international events from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to the Academy Awards in Hollywood, for the BBC World Service and BBC World News. From 2018 - 2022, he has worked for the United Nations Foundation as their Chief Communications Officer. In 2022, he joined Feeding America as Chief Communications and Community Engagement Officer. Education Mirchandani was educated at the University of Bristol, where he received a BSc in Economics before attending the University of Wales College of Cardiff where he received a diploma in broadcast journalism. In 2012, he received his master's degree in public diplomacy from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Career Mirchandani worked for more than two decades as a journalist and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komla Dumor
Komla Afeke Dumor (3 October 1972 – 18 January 2014) was a Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme ''Focus on Africa''. Early life and education Dumor was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, Ernest Dumor, was a professor of sociology and his mother, Cecelia Dumor, had a master's degree in Mass Communication. His grandfather was Philip Gbeho, composer of the music of Ghanaian national anthem, and his uncle, James Victor Gbeho, is a leading Ghanaian diplomat. Dumor initially studied pre-clinical medicine at the University of Jos, Nigeria, but left for his home country where he started as a medical student at the University of Ghana but later graduated with a BSc. in Sociology and Psychology, and from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government with a Master's of Public Administration. His sister is Mawuena Trebarh, former Chief Executive Officer of thGhana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC)and his brother is D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ros Atkins
Roslyn Atkins (born 1974) is an English journalist and analysis editor for the BBC. He presents ''Outside Source'', ''Ros Atkins on the week'' and ''Ros Atkins on..'' on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. He also presents on rotation ''The Media Show'' on BBC Radio 4 and News Channel. He previously hosted ''World Have Your Say'' on BBC World News and BBC World Service radio. Early life and education Roslyn Atkins was born in 1974 and grew up in Stithians, Cornwall but also lived in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Nassau, Bahamas. He lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, after finishing his studies. Atkins was educated at Truro School, a co-educational independent school in Truro in Cornwall, and read history at Jesus College, Cambridge. Career Early career Atkins began his career in South Africa where he researched crime prevention and human rights for the Centre for Policy Studies. He wrote for the '' Sunday Independent'' in South Africa and worked as a DJ in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Global Development
The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., and London that focuses on international development. History It was founded in November 2001 by former senior U.S. official Edward W. Scott, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall. Birdsall, the former vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank and former director of the Policy Research Department at the World Bank, became the center's first president. Lawrence Summers was unanimously elected in March 2014 by the CGD Board of Directors to succeed founding Board Chair Edward Scott Jr., on May 1, 2014. CGD was ranked the 13th most prominent think tank in the international development sphere by University of Pennsylvania's "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". In 2009, ''Foreign Policy'' magazine's Think-Tank Index listed CGD as one of the top 15 overall think-tanks in the US. CGD's stated mission is " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News Channel
BBC News (also known as the BBC News Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel for BBC News. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 5:30 pm as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.About BBC News 24 TV Home For a time, looped news, sport and weather bulletins were available to view via BBC Red Button. On 22 February 2006, the channel was named ''News Channel of the Year'' at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had "really come into its own." The channel won the accolade for a second time in 2017. From May 2007, viewers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Moshiri
Maryam Moshiri is a television broadcaster who currently works for the BBC. Career Moshiri began her career as a business reporter for Independent Radio News, before joining the BBC in 2003. She worked for 16 years as a Business News Anchor on some of the BBC's flagship business programmes such as ''The Business Briefing'', ''Work Life'' and ''Talking Business''. Maryam also broadcast on Radio 4, BBC Breakfast news and presented the 8pm News bulletin on BBC1. She was also a regular presenter of the afternoon and evening business news on BBC News, the corporation's 24-hour news channel. In 2019 Maryam became a Chief News Presenter at BBC World News and BBC News. She has anchored most of the global news channel's flagship programmes, including OS, Impact and Global. Maryam has also presented ''The Papers'' on BBC News. Personal life Moshiri graduated from University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala McGovern
Nuala McGovern is an Irish journalist and broadcaster working for BBC News. McGovern was the main presenter of ''Outside Source'' on the BBC World Service from 2014 to 2022. Early life and education McGovern grew up in Drumcondra in Dublin. Her father was a publican. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, where she studied English and Italian. Early career After graduating from university she taught English in Italy for a period before moving to the United States after her sister made an application for a green card on her behalf. She got her start in broadcasting as a presenter and producer for Adrian Flannelly's radio show in New York, before joining WNYC. There, McGovern was a producer on ''The Brian Lehrer Show'' for nine years, where she was part of a Peabody Award-winning team. During this time she was also the founding producer of a spin-off show, ''Brian Lehrer Live: Where Web Video Meets the Issues''. BBC career McGovern joined the BBC in 2009 as a pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Simmonds
Samantha Rose Simmonds (born ) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016. She returned to presenting for BBC News in March 2017. Early life Simmonds was born to an Iranian mother and a Yorkshire-born father. Her mother moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Simmonds grew up in the Alwoodley area of Leeds and attended Leeds Girls' High School. She studied for a BA at Liverpool University. Whilst a student in Liverpool, she appeared as a contestant on the ITV television show ''Blind Date''. Journalism career After gaining a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City University in London in 1995, Simmonds worked as a reporter for local radio in Yorkshire before moving to London for a job as a producer on Channel Five News. She was later a presenter on BBC Breakfast and spent two years reporting and presenting BBC London's news programmes before joining Sky News in 2005. While presenting that ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Rogers (journalist)
Chris Rogers (born 13 November 1975) is a British broadcast journalist specialising in investigative journalism, and news presenter. He is among the long line up of presenters that began their career presenting BBC Newsround moving on to present and report for Sky News including its BAFTA Award-winning coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He then joined the Channel 4 RI:SE presenting team before heading to ITN's ITV News, and ITV's ''Tonight'' documentary series, where he presented and reported for London Today, London Tonight, ITV Evening News and produced and fronted numerous investigations for the News at Ten and the Tonight programme as ITV's Investigative Correspondent. He left ITN in 2009 to present BBC News. He has also made many investigations as a producer and reporter for the BBC's ''Panorama'' and the BBC's ''Our World'' documentary series. Since 2017, Rogers has been Creative Director and Executive Producer of the television and online content production company Fresh Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Madera
Katarzyna "Kasia" Madera (born 4 October 1975) is a British journalist and television news presenter. She fronts mainly evening and overnight bulletins on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News, presenting the ''Newsday'' strand on Friday from London with Sharanjit Leyl in Singapore and World News Today on Friday.Babita Sharma Biography In 2013 she became one of the main presenters of broadcast on , |
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