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Juliette Foster (born 11 February 1964) is a British
journalist
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and
television news
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presenter.
After graduating from the
University of Wales, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...
, she trained as a Radio Journalist at the
London College of Printing
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. Her first job was as a freelance reporter for
BBC Radio London
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. A year later she managed to get her first job in television as a researcher for the
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current affairs programme "
Brass Tacks" and one year on, was one of six employees selected by the BBC to train as television reporters. In 1990, she left the BBC and joined the breakfast television channel
TV-am
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as a production journalist. When TV-am lost their franchise to broadcast, Foster moved back to freelance work, before spending 5 years in the City working for the US business broadcaster,
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.
In 2001, she was offered a position at
Sky News
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and co-anchored some of the main news programmes including the morning show, ''Sunrise'', as well as ''Live at Five'', the nine o’clock news, ''Sky News at Ten''.
In 2006 she founded
Magnus Communications, offering Media Strategy
She is currently back in the City, working for
BBC News
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. More recently, she has taken on a wider role at
BBC World News
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, presenting the business news either from the studio or from the
London Stock Exchange
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, as a cover presenter of World News Today: Business Edition (Weekdays 22:00 GMT) and as a duty newscaster at weekends as well as providing cover during the week. She also presents Shares Perspectives from 1-5pm weekdays on Share Radio.
External links
Personal and business website
1964 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
BBC World News
Sky News newsreaders and journalists
British television journalists
British television presenters
British broadcast news analysts
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