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Newsreader

News presenter, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet


Alex Sanz

He began his broadcast journalism career as an anchor and correspondent for Channel One News in Los Angeles, California where he covered news across the country and around the world.

Beverley O'Connor

In 2008, O'Connor filled in as weekend presenter of ABC News Victoria while Tamara Oudyn was replacing weeknight presenter Ian Henderson.

Bryan Dobson

Bryan Dobson (born 10 February 1960) is a Irish newscaster with RTÉ in Ireland.

Desi Anwar

Desi Anwar (born Bandung, West Java; 11 December 1962) is an Indonesian news presenter.

Douglas Edwards

Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was America's first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS's first nightly news broadcast from 1948–1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.

Eltham High School

The school has produced Tour de France winning cyclist Cadel Evans, footballer Peter Moore, Victorian cricketer Lloyd Mash, Seven Network newsreader Jennifer Adams, actor and musician Ben Mendelsohn, actress Emily Browning, Australian actress and cinema icon Kerry Armstrong, and Australian comedian and radio / television personality Merrick Watts of Merrick & Rosso.

Karen Foss

Karen Foss, born Karen Colleen Graham in Kansas City, Missouri on February 2, 1944, was a television anchorwoman on KSDK in St. Louis, Missouri from 1979 until December 28, 2006.

Michael Miles

He then travelled to Australia, before moving on to Singapore as a newsreader, leaving only days before the island was invaded by the Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Mónica Mesones

She went on to be the weather and entertainment news presenter for the 6pm and 11pm newscast at KSTS, a Telemundo affiliate in northern California, then co- presented the national news show Calles al Desnudo on the Azteca América network in Los Angeles.

Natalie Jacobson

Natalie Jacobson (born Natalie Salatich) was for a quarter-century a well-regarded and popular television newscaster with WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts.

Peggy Taylor

She was among the rotating announcers who were thanked on the air every night by anchor John Schubeck at the start of each edition of the station's NewsCenter 4, for which Taylor also anchored sign-on and sign-off editions out-of-vision.

Pittsburg, Kansas

In late 2012, NBC news anchor Brian Williams, who started his career in Pittsburg, Kansas as a journalist at KOAM-TV, covered the local story of a fried chicken war between Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's on the Travel Channel.

Priya Kaur-Jones

Priya Kaur-Jones (born 2 April 1979 in Walton, Wakefield) is a British newsreader.

Steve Pickett

He was a news reporter at NBC affiliate television station KGW serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, and now is reporter-anchorman at CBS owned-and-operated television station KTVT licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.

Truth/Kaze no Mukō e

"Truth" was used as the theme song for Arashi member Satoshi Ohno's 2008 drama Maō while "Kaze no Mukō e" was used as the theme song for the news coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics on NTV, featuring member Sho Sakurai as the main newscaster.

Verity James

She was a regular on ABC TV's Can We Help?, and after Greg Pearce left radio to join Perth's National Nine News team in February 2008, James took over his early morning shift on 720 ABC Perth.


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Abby Mann

While announcing Mann's death, BBC Radio 4 news presenter Charlotte Green caused controversy by laughing after what is believed to be the world's earliest recording, played during the preceding item, was described off-air as sounding like "a bee trapped in a jar".

Alexey Pivovarov

Since 2005 he has been well known as a news presenter for Segodnia (Today), usually appearing with Lilia Gildeeva, and for his own TV projects.

Amber Sherlock

In July 2009, Sherlock was appointed Monday news presenter for Today, as Georgie Gardner presents Nine News Sydney on Friday and Saturday.

Armytage

Samantha Armytage (b. 1977), an Australian journalist and television news presenter

British Asian Trust

As of April 2012, thirty three ambassadors from the worlds of television, film, sport and cuisine support the Trust including comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar, cricketer Isa Guha, celebrity chef Atul Kochhar, BBC News presenter Mishal Husain and entrepreneur James Caan.

Cher Calvin

She was a former news presenter of Studio 23's News Central and one of the hosts of the fashion magazine show F on ABS-CBN.

Christina Suntai

Christina Suntai is a DJ on Radio Free Sarawak and a graduated from Florida Technical College in computer science and computer programming as former Systems Project Analyst at Agency for Health Administration, Distributed Computer Sys Administrator at Florida Dept of Environmental Protection, she was also a former of the favourite voices of Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), working as a top reporter and news presenter on several shows.

Coggan

Michael Coggan, Australian news presenter, currently lead anchor for ABC News in the Northern Territory

Davidson, New South Wales

Matt Shirvington - Olympic athlete, sprinter and television news presenter

Dwight Nelson

In 2004 he, along with former BBC News presenter Gillian Joseph presented a discussion-style series called Evidence: Through My Experience held at Newbold College, Berkshire.

Emmy Kubainski

In October 2009, Emmy filled in as a news presenter on Sunrise while Natalie Barr was co-hosting as Melissa Doyle was on holidays.

Francesca Hawkins

Francesca's television career began at, the age of 21 when she was asked to serve as a frontline news presenter at Trinidad and Tobago Television under the guidance of veteran broadcaster Jones P. Madeira.

Heath O'Loughlin

O'Loughlin presented alongside news presenter Jo Hall and filled-in for the weeknight sports presenter Tony Jones.

Jason de la Peña

After the end of his cricketing career, de la Peña became a news presenter on Sky News, following previous stints at France 24 and Russia Today.

Judy Bailey

A reshuffle in TVNZ following the departure of Paul Holmes in 2004 saw her become the sole news presenter for the 6pm ONE News bulletin, and her salary soared to NZ$800,000.

Kathryn Robinson

In January 2011, Robinson was appointed presenter of Ten Late News, where she replaced Sandra Sully and became news presenter on 6PM with George Negus.

Lisa Backhouse

She regularly fills in on the weekend news for news presenter Heather Foord or on the weather and she is also a senior reporter

Mal Walden

He was appointed news presenter of the station's Ten News at Five alongside Jennifer Hansen and later Helen Kapalos.

Maria L. Fernandez

María Lucía Fernández (born 1968), Colombian journalist and news presenter

Neil Waka

Neil was soon offered the position of news anchor for TVNZ's One News Late Edition and after twelve months he took over as TVNZ One News 6pm weekday sports news presenter working alongside Judy Bailey, a position he held from the beginning of 2004 for the next four years.

Ole Tøpholm

Since 2000 he has been working for the Danish broadcaster Danmarks Radio as a reporter on Radioavisen and he is currently the morning news presenter for DR P3.

Pua Magasiva

He has also appeared in nine Lift Plus commercials in New Zealand he also took over his brother's role as the Small Blacks TV News presenter alongside Conrad Snakey Smith.

Rebecca Singh

Rebecca Singh (born 28 January 1975) is a news presenter on the New Zealand television station, TV3.

Rod Young

In October 2002 he moved to Seven News to present beside Kay McGrath, after the long serving news presenter Frank Warrick retired.

Sandy Gall

Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall, CMG, CBE (born 1 October 1927), is a Scottish journalist, author, and former ITN news presenter whose career as a journalist has spanned more than 50 years.

Sarah Cumming

In February 2010, Sarah was appointed as Saturday News Presenter on Weekend Sunrise she however left this position due to becoming weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.

Shaun Brown

On 21 August 2007, it was reported that veteran SBS TV newsreader Mary Kostakidis had walked out on the network after nearly 20 years at the helm as a news presenter.

Tracey Challenor

In November 2006, it was announced that the Nine Network's Today news presenter Sharyn Ghidella would replace Challenor as the weekend newsreader of the 6pm news in Brisbane.

Whitney Fitzsimmons

Previously Fitzsimmons was a news presenter for Australia Network and anchored major world events such as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Palestinian elections and the end of Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's political career.