Geeta Guru-Murthy is a British television journalist. Since 2013 she has presented mainly morning bulletins, including ''

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'', and bulletins on

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and

Early life

Guru-Murthy was born in

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, and grew up in

West Bradford, Lancashire West Bradford is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, 27 miles (43 km) west of the larger city of Bradford, West Yorkshire and 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Clitheroe. The population of the civil parish taken at th ...

close to where her father worked as a radiologist in the local hospitals at Burnley and Blackburn. She was involved with orchestras, theatres and choirs before going on to study biochemistry, and later changing careers.

Career

Guru-Murthy was a reporter for the BBC's regional news programme, ''

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'', before moving to '' 5 News''. In January 1998 Guru-Murthy covered the breaking of the

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from

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for 5 News. By 2002, Guru-Murthy was hosting '' Asia Today'', with regular work for

BBC World 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 S ...

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, and

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, and by 2005 presenting the news on

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. In 2002, Guru-Murthy appeared in the television series '' Waking the Dead''. In 2017 Guru-Murthy was one of several female BBC employees campaigning against the

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Personal life

Guru-Murthy married speech-writer and journalist Philip Collins in June 2002, taking a honeymoon in India. Her younger brother,

Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist. He is the lead presenter of ''Channel 4 News''. He also presents '' Unreported World'', a foreign-affairs documentary series. Early life Guru-Murthy's father, an Indian consul ...

, is also a journalist and broadcaster for

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References

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