James Menendez is a British journalist and radio broadcaster working for
BBC News
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,
BBC World Service, and
BBC World News
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. Menendez is one of the main presenters of ''
Newshour'' on the
BBC World Service.
Career
Menendez joined the BBC as a trainee reporter in 1995. He then became a reporter for the
BBC World Service before becoming the BBC Correspondent in
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
.
In 2004, Menendez moved back to London, as an occasional presenter on ''
Newshour'' and ''
The World Today''. In 2007, he became one of the main presenters of ''
World Briefing'' before becoming a main presenter on ''Newshour''. In addition to presenting the programme, Menendez reports for ''Newshour'' from around the world. On 13 April 2015, he started presenting
World News Today
''World News Today'' is a current affairs news programme, produced by BBC News presented on Friday-Sundays with Philippa Thomas, Karin Giannone & Kasia Madera. Presenters alternate the weekend shifts. It was originally conceived as a morning ...
on
BBC Four and
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 ...
.
In 2017, an interview he was conducting on BBC World News with
Robert Kelly went viral after the interviewees children busted in and started dancing.
On 1 July 2022 Menendez presented The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.
References
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BBC newsreaders and journalists
BBC World Service presenters
BBC World News
British radio presenters
Living people
British people of Mexican descent
Year of birth missing (living people)