List of female BBC News presenters and reporters

Publish date: 2024-09-05

As an operational business branch of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), BBC News is responsible for collecting and broadcasting current affairs and news globally. The department is one of the leading news organizations in the world that produces daily television and radio productions. As a revered broadcast, both male and female BBC News presenters are popular for their phenomenal contribution in the world of journalism.

With the emergence of the Internet, the organization has started online news coverage to stay abreast of the latest technology. BBC News has employed an incredible team of both male and female presenters, reporters, and correspondents who feature in radio and television and participate in producing content for BBC Online. Here is a list of female BBC News presenters and reporters who stand out in their job for their creative style.

Female BBC presenters?

Female BBC presenters are among the organization’s highly paid on-air talent despite inflation rates. In the year that ended in March 2019, for example, BBC had paid about 30,000 individuals who featured on its radio and TV shows £158.6 million. This was equivalent to an 8 percent increase from the preceding year. Below is a detailed outline of some of the leading BBC female newsreaders and presenters.

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Claudia Winkleman

Born on 15th January 1972, Claudia Anne Winkleman is an English journalist, model, television presenter, radio personality, and film critic. She presented on BBC Two from 2004 to 2010 and later co-presented with Tess Daly a programme entitled Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday nights, which aired on BBC One.

Since 2014, Claudia has been co-hosting with Daly night live shows on Saturdays after the departure of Sir Bruce Forsyth. Her significant contribution to the Strictly Come Dancing show has seen her nominated twice for Best Entertainment Performance under the British Academy Television Award.

When Jonathan Ross made the move to ITV in 2010, Wickleman stepped in as BBC’s “Film” presenter. She also played the role of co-presenter with Steve Jones for the initial two series of Let’s Sing and Dance. Between 2013 and 2016, she presented The Great British Sewing Bee; a BBC Two’s TV series.

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Due to her popularity and expertise in the organization, Wickleman is currently the highest paid female newsreader on our comprehensive list of female BBC News presenters. Her annual salary is between £450,000 and £499,999.

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Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty whose real name is Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah is an English journalist and television presenter born on 25th February 1975. She presents BBC World News and BBC Breakfast. In January 2017, Naga briefly made a switch (for the purpose of providing maternity cover) from BBC Breakfast to Newsnight as a stand-in business editor.

She is a former BBC Two’s presenter for Working Lunch; a weekday financial affairs show. Before joining BBC News, Naga served as a reporter at Reuters Financial TV and at CNBC Europe as a senior producer. She also worked for Channel 4 News as a business reporter and producer, and on Bloomberg TV as a presenter.

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Fiona Bruce

Born on 25th April 1964 in Singapore to a Scottish father and an English mother, Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British TV presenter, journalist, and one of the most popular female BBC News presenters on the list. Since joining BBC in 1989 as Panorama researcher, she has served on BBC News at Ten where she became the first female newsreader.

She has also presented on several flagship programmes for the organization including Crimewatch, Fake or Fortune, BBC News at Six, Antiques Roadshow, and Real Story. Bruce has been the presenter of Question Time television programme since January 2019.

Clare Balding

Clare Victoria Balding is a journalist, broadcaster, and author born on 29th January 1971. Among other BBC female newsreaders, she presents for BT Sport, Channel 4, and BBC Sport, and initially presented Good Morning Sunday; a religious programme on BBC Radio 2. In June 1995, Clare introduced Royal Ascot highlights which served as her debut as BBC TV presenter. She became the Corporation’s horse racing presenter in 1997 when Julian Wilson retired.

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As one of the leading female BBC news sports presenters, Clare currently hosts The Clare Balding Show; a sports chat show, which airs on BBC Two and BT Sport. Some of the guests who have featured on the show include Judy Murray, Tom Daley, Lewis Hamilton, Martina Navratilova, and Mike Tyson. Besides writing for Waitrose Weekend, Clare has written several columns for Racing Post, The Evening Standard, The Sporting Life, Stylist, and Sunday Telegraph. She has also featured on BBC Sports Personality of the Year alongside other presenters.

Louise Minchin

Born in British Hong Kong in 1968, Louise Mary Minchin is a British news presenter and journalist who serves at the BBC on a freelance basis. She has been a regular presenter since 2006 on the Breakfast programme on BBC One where she co-hosts a show with Dan Walker three days per week. Louise Minchin who graduated from London College of Communication also co-hosted Real Rescues with Chris Hollins and Nick Knowles between 2009 and 2012.

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Additionally, the presenter has frequently hosted The One Show since 2010 as a guest. The University of Chester Awarded her with an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in March 2014 before she competed and finished second on BBC One Celebrity MasterChef in 2016.

Victoria Derbyshire

Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire is an RTS, BAFTA and Sony award-winning English broadcaster and journalist born on 2nd October 1968. Since 2015, her eponymous debate and current affairs programme have been aired on the BBC News Channel and BBC Two.

She is a former presenter of Newsnight and the morning news and interview programme every weekday from 10AM to 12noon on BBC Radio 5 Live. However, Victoria left the BBC in late 2014 alongside Shelagh Fogarty and Richard Bacon. The journalist took part in an ITV ladies’ night programme called All New Full Monty.

Jo Coburn

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Born in Hendon, London on 12th November 1967, Joanne Dawn Coburn is a BBC News journalist, famous in Politics Live as a presenter and former co-host of BBC Breakfast along with Andrew Neil. Before serving as a presenter, Jo was BBC political correspondent where she covered the London Mayoral election in 2000. She serves as a relief presenter from time to time on the BBC News Channel and has in the past presented on BBC Radio 4. She sometimes also features on The World This Weekend; a current affairs weekend programme.

List of BBC female sports presenters

As an independent department, BBC Sport provides international sports reporting for BBC radio, television, and online. In this list of presenters, some are female BBC News sports presenters who have made a significant contribution in journalism by covering various sports competitions across the world:

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These celebrity presenters are not listed in a specific order, but some of them rank among the top paid BBC stars. In fact, presenters earning over £150,000 increased in the previous financial year from 64 to 75. The five female BBC presenters who appear in the list of top 20 highest paid presenters are Claudia Winkleman, Laura Larverne, Vanessa Feltz, Zoe Ball, and Gabby Logan.

Female BBC World News reporters

Like their male counterparts, female BBC World News reporters boldly give the audience the opportunity to taste the quality and depth of BBC reports from their correspondents spread all over the world. The following is a list of the leading female BBC Newshour reporters:

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While this list is not exhaustive, most of the above BBC female reporters also feature in other programmes within the organization. They are also experienced in other areas like acting, modeling and writing plays and novels. Foreign correspondents are usually deployed to cover major international events outside their normal bases. Thus, female BBC News presenters and reporters work tirelessly to keep the audience updated on the latest world news. The corporation also employs several sports, weather, and business presenters to anchor part of news programmes.

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