Philippa Thomas (born 22 November 1965) is a television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign, at the

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Early life and education

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Career

Thomas has reported extensively from the United States, South America, Africa, and continental Europe. She was posted as presenter and special correspondent in the BBC Washington bureau from 2007 to 2010, where she anchored political coverage, and filmed original features on U.S. politics, economics and culture. Her stories aired on BBC World News,

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news broadcasts, BBC America's ''World News America'', and BBC Online. Before that, during 2007 and 2008, Thomas presented the 22:00 ET edition of ''

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 ...

'', a one-hour news programme on the

and

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. From 1997 to 2001, she was also a

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North America correspondent, providing headline news from the impeachment of President Clinton to the global impact of the 9/11 attacks. From 1990 to 1997, she was a BBC Political Correspondent reporting from Westminster, Belfast and Dublin, including extensive coverage of the Northern Ireland peace process. While a

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(2010–2011) at

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, studying digital media and

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, a blog post by Thomas reporting a comment by

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received wide coverage, and resulted in Crowley's resignation. She returned to her BBC broadcast duties in July 2011. Since returning to the UK Thomas has appeared as a correspondent on

. Since January 2013, Thomas has been a full time presenter on the relaunched

, first as the main presenter of ''World News Today''. She is also an occasional presenter of ''

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'' on

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and ''

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'' on the

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. Thomas is a special elections presenter for

, anchoring rolling news coverage of UK and US elections since 2015. In 2018, Thomas made a cameo appearance as herself in '' Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom''. On 24 July 2021, Thomas presented the BBC One Weekend News Evening and Late bulletins for the first time. In September 2021, in the aftermath of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Thomas was accused of biased reporting by taking a pro-Pakistan stand in an interview with

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External links

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BBC Press Office biography

Her blog
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