This is a list of current and former on air staff for the
ITN
Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based television production company. It is made up of two divisions: Broadcast News and ITN Productions. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, N ...
produced
ITV News
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since conti ...
broadcasts which are transmitted on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
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Newscasters
Lead newscasters
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Tom Bradby
Thomas Matthew Bradby (born 13 January 1967) is a British journalist and novelist who currently presents the ''ITV News at Ten''. He was previously political editor for ITV News from 2005 to 2015, and presented '' The Agenda with Tom Bradby'', ...
Sameena Ali-Khan
Sameena Ali-Khan (born 30 December 1967) is a British media personality who is known as a television presenter, journalist and newsreader. She is also a published author.
Since commencing her media career in 1997 for the BBC, Ali-Khan has worke ...
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ITV Weekend News
''ITV Weekend News'' is the national news bulletins on the British television network ITV at a weekend.
However it is often referred to on guides as ''ITV News'' (morning), ''ITV Lunchtime News'' (lunchtime), ''ITV Evening News'' (evening) and ...
Andrea Byrne
Andrea Byrne (née Benfield; born 1978) is an English journalist and presenter, currently working for ITV Cymru Wales, where she presents ''Wales at Six'' and ''Wales This Week''.
Personal life
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Byrne graduated from Sou ...
Lucrezia Millarini
Lucrezia Gaia Millarini (born 18 February 1976) is an English journalist and television presenter currently employed by '' ITV News''.
Early life
Lucrezia Gaia Millarini was born on 18 February 1976 into a family of Italian descent. Before star ...
Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar (; so, Raage Oomaar; ar, راجح أومار; born 19 July 1967) is a Somali-born British journalist and writer. He was a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. In September 2006, he moved to ...
Chris Ship
Christopher Ship is an English journalist and presenter, working for ITV News. Since 2017, he has been the Royal Editor.
Early life and education
Ship was brought up in Southampton in Hampshire, and educated at Bellemoor School for Boys (since ...
Geraint Vincent
Geraint V. Vincent is a British journalist, currently employed by ITN as a Correspondent for '' ITV News''.
Early life
The son of the international relations scholar R J Vincent and Angela Vincent, Vincent and his family lived in Newcastle in S ...
Romilly Weeks
Romilly Sarah Weeks (15 December 1973 in Paddington, London) is an English journalist who is a political correspondent and news presenter for ITV News.
Media career
After a career in acting, Weeks entered broadcast journalism. She has trav ...
Charlene White
Charlene Denise White (born 22 June 1980) is a British television broadcaster, journalist and presenter, best known for presenting ''ITV News'' programmes. She has been an anchor on ''Loose Women'' since 2021Fiona Armstrong (1985–1993)
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Pamela Armstrong
Pamela Armstrong (born 25 August 1951 in Kalimantan, Borneo) is a British journalist and news presenter.
Background
Armstrong's career in journalism started with Capital Radio where she presented the daily news and current affairs programme '' L ...
Felicity Barr
Felicity Barr (born 6 September 1970) is an English broadcast journalist, and former Al Jazeera English news presenter.
Radio career
Barr trained as a journalist at 2-Ten FM, before she specialised in sports reporting, covering events in sport ...
Timothy Brinton
Timothy Denis Brinton (24 December 1929 – 22 March 2009) was a British broadcaster and Conservative Party politician. The son of a neurologist, he was educated at Summer Fields School in Summertown, Oxford, followed by Eton College and the Uni ...
Christopher Chataway
Sir Christopher John Chataway (31 January 1931 – 19 January 2014) was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and Conservative politician.
Education
He was born in Chelsea, London, the son of James Denys ...
(1955–1956)
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Steve Clamp
Steven Robert "Steve" Clamp (born 3 January 1976 in Chichester, West Sussex) is an English Broadcast journalism, broadcast journalist and Television presenter, presenter with ITV Central.
Career
In 1994 his first television role was as a present ...
Katie Derham
Catherine Beatrice Margaret Derham (born 18 June 1970) is a British newscaster and a presenter on television and radio.
Early life and education
Derham was born on 18 June 1970 in Canterbury, Kent to Margaret, a teacher, and John Derham, a chemi ...
(1998–2010)
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Ali Douglas
Alison "Ali" Shaw (née Douglas) is a Scottish television presenter, who has appeared on ITV News, Sky Sports and MUTV.
Broadcasting career
Shaw started her television career with STV's children's department. She also presented current affair ...
Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh ( bn, , /ʃjuli ghɔːʃ/, born 28 September 1968) is a freelance television journalist, conference moderator, author and director of a media services company.
Shiulie formerly worked for the BBC, ITN and Aljazeera. She moderates d ...
Charlotte Hawkins
Charlotte Mary Hawkins (born 16 May 1975) is an English television and radio presenter, newsreader and journalist.
Hawkins joined ITV's ''Meridian Tonight'' in 2003, hosting its main news programme, leaving in 2006 to become co-presenter of ...
Alex Hyndman
Alex Hyndman (also known as Alexandra Hill) is an English broadcast journalist.
Early life
Hyndman was born in Grantham but grew up in Australia where she was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She moved back to the UK and attended Ki ...
Robert Kee
Robert Kee (5 October 1919 – 11 January 2013) was a British broadcaster, journalist and writer, known for his historical works on World War II and Ireland.
Life and career
He was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham, and read history ...
Martyn Lewis
Sir Martyn John Dudley Lewis (born 7 April 1945) is a Welsh television news presenter and journalist. He was a presenter for BBC News television programmes between 1986 and 1999 and was known for his involvement in the coverage of the death of ...
(1979–1986)
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Barbara Mandell
Allada Barbara Grenville Wells (15 July 1920 – 25 August 1998), known professionally as Barbara Mandell, was a British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer. She became the United Kingdom's first female newsreader after she was ...
(1955–1960)
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Daisy McAndrew
Daisy Candida McAndrew (Given name#Name at birth, née Sampson; born 20 May 1972 in Hampstead, London) is an English journalist.
Education
McAndrew was educated at Wycombe Abbey, Wycombe Abbey School, an independent school for girls in High Wyco ...
Rachel McTavish
Rachel McTavish is a broadcast journalist who formerly worked for STV.
Career
On 28 April 2008, McTavish
joined STV's regional magazine programme ''The Five Thirty Show'', replacing Debi Edward
Debi Edward is a Scottish television broadcast ...
(1997–2007, 2011–2012)
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Lucy Meacock
Lucy Meacock is an English journalist and presenter employed by ITV Granada. She has been one of the main female news presenters of ITV regional news programme, ''Granada Reports'' since 1988 and celebrated 30 years presenting the programme in Nov ...
(2007–2009, 2011–2015)
*Graham Miller (1993–1999)
*Ivor Mills (1965–1978)
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Saima Mohsin Saima Mohsin is a British Pakistani journalist and presenter born and raised in South London. Most recently she has been an international correspondent for CNN.
Career
In 2000 Mohsin gained her first job in television joining ITV Meridian as a ...
Bill Neely
Bill Neely (born 21 May 1959) is a Northern Ireland, Northern Irish journalist. He was the Chief Global Correspondent for NBC News, from 2014-2021. He has been a broadcaster since 1981. Neely spent 25 years at ITN's ITV News before retiring f ...
Michael Nicholson
Michael Nicholson (9 January 1937 – 11 December 2016) was an English journalist, specializing in war reporting, and a newscaster. He was ITN's Senior Foreign Correspondent.
Early life
Nicholson was born in Romford, Essex, on 9 January 193 ...
(1976–1986)
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Joyce Ohajah
Joyce Ohajah is a British journalist, previously working on ITV London's regional news programme, ''London Tonight'', and the national ''ITV Morning News''. She was formerly a regular presenter on the ITV News Channel
The ITV News Channel was ...
Leonard Parkin
Leonard Parkin (2 June 1929 – 20 September 1993) was a British television journalist and newscaster who worked for both the BBC and ITN.
Born in Thurnscoe, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Hemsworth Grammar School, Yorkshire. H ...
(1967–1987)
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Sonia Ruseler
Sonia Ruseler (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University.
She worked for the BBC, ITN, and anchored for CNN International from 1993 to 2001. An Argentine and Dutch national, she worked a ...
(1992–1993)
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Selina Scott
Selina Mary Scott (born 13 May 1951) is an English television presenter who co-hosted the first dedicated breakfast television programme in the UK before crossing the Atlantic to join '' West 57th'', a prime-time current-affairs show broadcast f ...
Ranvir Singh
Ranvir Singh (born 11 August 1977) is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the political editor and newsreader/deputy presenter for '' Good Morning Britain''.
Early life
Singh was born in 1977 in Preston, Lancashire, into a Si ...
Peter Sissons
Peter George Sissons (17 July 1942 – 1 October 2019) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He was a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4, before becoming the presenter of the BBC's ''Question Time'' between 1989 ...
Matt Teale
Matthew James "Matt" Teale (born 7 March 1975 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) is an English broadcast journalist employed by ITV Meridian.
Broadcasting career
Matt Teale was with ITV in the Midlands from 1997 until 2022 before becoming one of t ...
Pip Tomson
Philippa "Pip" Tomson (born 30 August 1977) is an English journalist and presenter. She is a news correspondent for ''Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme), Good Morning Britain'' on ITV Breakfast.
Career
At the age of 18 she trained as a jo ...
(2005)
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Denis Tuohy
Denis Tuohy (born 2 April 1937, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a television broadcaster, newsreader and journalist and actor.
Tuohy attended Queen's University, Belfast, where he learned to debate and acquired an interest in acting. In 1960, he a ...
Kirsty Young
Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November 1968) is a Scottish television and radio presenter.
From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''. She presented ''Crimewatch'' on BBC One from 2008 to 2015.
Early ...
Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar (; so, Raage Oomaar; ar, راجح أومار; born 19 July 1967) is a Somali-born British journalist and writer. He was a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. In September 2006, he moved to ...
: International Affairs Editor
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Penny Marshall
Carole Penny MarshallBorn Carole Penny Marshall in 1943, as per ''My Mother Was Nuts, a Memoir'', p. 10; . Copyright 2012 (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director and producer. She is known for her role as ...
: Africa Correspondent
* James Mates: Europe Editor
*Robert Moore: Washington Correspondent
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Dan Rivers
Dan Rivers is US correspondent at ITV News, and a former correspondent at CNN and CNN International.
Education
Rivers was educated at Beechen Cliff School, a boys' state comprehensive school in the city of Bath in Somerset in South West Englan ...
: U.S. Correspondent
National
* Paul Brand: UK Editor
*Ben Chapman: Midlands Correspondent
*Rupert Evelyn: West of England Correspondent
*Kelly Foran: North of England Reporter
*Sangita Lal: North of England Reporter
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Rachel Townsend
Rachel Townsend (''née'' Phillips) is a journalist, news reporter and relief presenter for ITV news programme Granada Reports. Up until mid-2008 she worked as a reporter and presenter for ITV news programme Calendar but due to ITV regional news ...
: North of England Correspondent
*Amy Welch: North of England Reporter
*Rhys Williams: Wales Reporter
Political
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Anushka Asthana
Anushka Asthana (born 1980) is a British Indian journalist and television presenter, who is currently deputy political editor of ITV News.
Early life
Asthana was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and raised in Stalybridge, Greater Mancheste ...
: Deputy Political Editor
*Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe: Political Reporter
*Carl Dinnen: Political Correspondent
*Harry Horton: Political Correspondent
*Shehab Khan: Political Correspondent
*Amy Lewis: News/Political Reporter
* Robert Peston: Political Editor
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Romilly Weeks
Romilly Sarah Weeks (15 December 1973 in Paddington, London) is an English journalist who is a political correspondent and news presenter for ITV News.
Media career
After a career in acting, Weeks entered broadcast journalism. She has trav ...
: Political Correspondent
*Libby Wiener: Political Correspondent
Specialist
*Chris Choi: Consumer Editor
*Sarah Corker: Social Affairs Correspondent
*Rishi Davda: Entertainment Reporter
*Stacey Foster: Social Affairs Correspondent
* Daniel Hewitt: Investigations Correspondent
*Joel Hills: Business/Economics Editor
*Rohit Kachroo: Global Security Editor
* Emily Morgan: Health/Science Editor (until 2023)
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Nina Nannar
Nina Nannar is a British Asian journalist.
Brought up in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, she worked on Midlands Today
''Midlands Today'' is the BBC's regional television news service for the West Midlands. It was launched in 1964 and is p ...
: Arts Editor
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Chris Ship
Christopher Ship is an English journalist and presenter, working for ITV News. Since 2017, he has been the Royal Editor.
Early life and education
Ship was brought up in Southampton in Hampshire, and educated at Bellemoor School for Boys (since ...
: Royal Editor
*Martin Stew: Health/Science Correspondent
Sally Biddulph
Sally Anne Biddulph (née Mules; born 16 October 1975 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is an English journalist and presenter employed by ITN.
Career
After a short stint working in business after university, Sally started her new career in journalis ...
Geraint Vincent
Geraint V. Vincent is a British journalist, currently employed by ITN as a Correspondent for '' ITV News''.
Early life
The son of the international relations scholar R J Vincent and Angela Vincent, Vincent and his family lived in Newcastle in S ...
Suzanne Virdee
Suzanne Nicole Virdee (born 16 October 1969 in Solihull, Warwickshire, now the West Midlands) is a British journalist and television presenter, working on a freelance basis with UK news organisation ITN.
Career
Virdee became a journalist at the ...
* Reporters from regional ITV News services (as well as from STV) and '' Good Morning Britain'' appear on national news bulletins (in particular, the '' ITV Lunchtime News'') in the absence of any ITN correspondent or reporter.
*National Correspondents occasionally report from out-with their main coverage area.
*In addition,
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...
correspondents are occasionally featured on the aforementioned programme to provide analysis and details of any breaking international stories.