Karin Giannone

South African-born British newsreader (born 1974) Karin Thandi Giannone (/ˈkɑːrɪn dʒəˈnoʊni/ KAR-in jə-NOH-nee; born January 1974) is a South African-born British news presenter working in the United Kingdom. She is a London-based main presenter on the BBC News channel. Career Giannone edited the student magazine Varsity magazine at Cambridge, which led to work experience at Anglia Television, and on graduation in 1997 she joined the regional ITV station in Norwich as a news trainee, producing, reporting and presenting for regional news bulletins. In 1999, her language and broadcasting skills helped her land a role as a reporter and presenter for Channel 4's Football Italia series, where she covered the Italian soccer scene for a season, flying between the UK and Italy every week. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. She also followed troops from the region for a series of reports from Afghanistan in 2002. Giannone then moved to London to present a variety of shifts for Sky News, before joining BBC News in 2005. Her work assignments have included a stint prese