- Alan Johnston
Alan Graham Johnston (born May 17, 1962) is a British journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip. As the only Western journalist permanently based in Gaza, he was kidnapped by a group of Palestinian militants on March 12, 2007, and released nearly four months later on July 4.
- Charles Wheeler
Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (born Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler on March 26 1923) is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he is currently their longest serving foreign correspondent. Wheeler's long career has involved postings to Berlin, Delhi and Washington. In the later years of his career he was the American correspondent of "Newsnight".
- Andrew Gilligan
Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November, 1968, Teddington, London, England) is a journalist best known for his 2003 report about a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) while working for BBC Radio 4's "The Today Programme" as its defence and diplomatic correspondent.
- Nick Robinson
Nicholas Anthony Robinson (born October 5 1963) is the Political Editor of the BBC. He was previously the Political Editor of ITV News from November 2002 until August 2005, and Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News 24 before that. He is noted for his trademark spectacles.
- Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited "The Independent" for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called "Sunday AM" on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. In May 2007 he began a new political history series on BBC Two, "Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain".
- John Simpson
John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born August 9, 1944), commonly known as John Simpson, is a British journalist who currently holds the most senior role of World Affairs Editor for BBC News. He also presents the current affairs programme "Simpson's World".
- Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British BBC journalist, news and TV presenter and author from England. He is best known for his abrasive and forthright style of interviewing on the BBC's "Newsnight" programme, which has often been praised as tough and incisive or criticised as aggressive and irreverent. Any kind of tough questioning is routinely described as "Paxmanesque" in recognition of his style.
- Justin Webb
Justin Oliver Webb (born 3 January 1961) is a British journalist and has been the BBC's chief Washington correspondent since 2001. Prior to this, he was a BBC News presenter based in London and the main presenter on BBC One's "Breakfast News" programme from 1992 to 1997. He also presented the BBC's "One" and "Six O'Clock News" bulletins. He attended the London School of Economics and was an editor of the student newspaper, The Beaver
- Jill Dando
Jill Dando (9 November 1961 - 26 April 1999) was a British television presenter who worked for the BBC for over fifteen years. She was murdered in April 1999, and police mounted a high-profile hunt for her killer. The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science is named after her in recognition of her contribution to the fight against crime.
- John Humphrys
John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a British radio and television presenter. He has been a presenter on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme since 1987, and has worked as a correspondent and presenter for the "Nine O'Clock News". He is considered to be a tough interviewer and has occasionally attracted criticism for his abrasive style: for example, …
- Mark Mardell
Mark Mardell (born 10 September 1957) is the Europe Editor for BBC News. He has provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election since 1992. Mardell was educated at Epsom College in Surrey, England, and studied politics at the University of Kent. He began his career reporting and reading the news for the commercial station Radio Tees. He then worked at Radio Aire in Leeds before moving to Independent Radio News in London, …
- Susan Watts
Susan Watts is the science editor of the BBC's Newsnight programme, joining the programme in January 1995. She was educated at Imperial College London, and spent 10 years in print journalism specialising in scientific topics, working for "Computer Weekly", "New Scientist" and "The Independent", before moving into television. Watts came into the limelight in Summer 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry, …
- John Sweeney
John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist and author, currently working as an investigative journalist for the BBC's "Panorama" series.
- Evan Davis
Evan Robert Davis (born April 8 1962 in Ashtead, Surrey) is a British economist and journalist; he has been the BBC's economics editor since October 2001, replacing Peter Jay. He attended The Ashcombe School, Dorking, and later Davis studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford from 1981 to 1984 and obtained an MPA at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Martin Bell
Martin Bell, OBE, (born 31 August, 1938) is a British UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician. He is the son of author-farmer Adrian Bell, and the uncle of weblogger-banker Oliver Kamm, who served as his political adviser during his term as an Member of Parliament (MP). His sister is the translator Anthea Bell. Bell was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge and Cambridge University.
- Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce (born 25 April, 1964 in Singapore) is a British journalist and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many programmes for the corporation including the "Ten O'Clock News", "Real Story" and "Crimewatch UK", as well as appearing elsewhere in the likes of "Call My Bluff".
- Jeremy Bowen
Jeremy Francis John Bowen (born 6 February 1960, in Cardiff) is a British journalist and television presenter. His secondary education was at Cardiff High School, followed by University College London (BA, History) and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, he joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a war correspondent for much of his career, reporting from more than 70 different countries, …
- Kate Peyton
Katherine Mary Peyton (b. December 13 1965, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; d. February 9 2005 in Mogadishu) was Senior Producer for the BBC Johannesburg Bureau 2002-05. She was killed in a shooting incident in Somalia whilst reporting on that country's nascent peace process. Kate Peyton's death as the result of a shooting incident in Somalia "robbed Africa of one of its most compassionate observers and her family and friends of a person of matchless warmth".
- Kirsty Wark
Two children. Co-owner of Wark Clements production company with her husband A Guinness drinker. Holds a degree in Scottish Studies from Edinburgh University.
- Clarence Mitchell
Clarence Mitchell is the Director of the British Government's Media Monitoring Unit. He was formerly a reporter and presenter for BBC News.
- Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar (born 19 July 1967) is a British television news presenter and writer of Somali origin. His latest book "Only Half of Me" deals with the tensions between these two sides of his identity. He used to be a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. He moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English in September 2006, where he currently presents the nightly weekday documentary series "Witness".
- Michael Buerk
Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting (with photography by Mohamed Amin) of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October, 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record. Buerk was born in Solihull, and was educated at Solihull School, a local Independent school. In later life he attended the University of Sussex. After working for the "South Wales Echo" and "Daily Mail", …
- Frank Gardner
Frank Rolleston Gardner, OBE (born July 31 1961) is a British journalist. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent, a post he has held since 2002. Educated at Marlborough College, a boys' independent school in Wiltshire, England, and at the University of Exeter, Gardner cites a meeting with the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his youth, which led to a life of fascination with the Arab world and a degree in the Arabic language from University of Exeter.
- Kate Adie
Kate Adie OBE (born September 19 1945) is a British journalist. Her most high-profile role was that of chief news reporter for BBC News during which time she became well-known for reporting from war zones around the world. Adie was born in Northumberland, within sight of St Mary's Island. She was, however, adopted by a Sunderland couple and grew up in the city. She is an avid fan of the city's football team, Sunderland A.F.C..
- David Frost
Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (born 7 April 1939, Tenterden, Kent) moved to Beccles, Suffolk as a child and is an English television presenter. He currently presents a weekly programme, 'Frost Over The World', on the newly launched Al Jazeera English Channel.
- Fergal Keane
Fergal Patrick Keane OBE (born January 6 1961) is an Irish writer and broadcaster. For many years, Keane was the BBC's correspondent in Southern Africa. He is the nephew of Irish author John B. Keane.
- Jeff Randall
Jeff William Randall (born October 3 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and from 2005 editor-at-large of the "Daily Telegraph". Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, London Borough of Havering and the University of Nottingham. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida. Randall worked as Assistant Editor of "Financial Weekly", …
- Gavin Hewitt
Gavin Hewitt became a Special Correspondent for BBC News at the beginning of 2000. Since then he has reported on many of the major stories at home and abroad. In 2005 he covered the tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan. He also reported from New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina where he and his team bought a boat and managed to rescue a family of five. Gavin was also one of the main reporters on the London bombings on 7 July 2005, …
- George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah (born November 22, 1955 in Sri Lanka) is a newsreader on BBC Television in the UK. He co-presents the Six O'Clock News with Natasha Kaplinsky. He has been the main presenter of BBC World's "World News Today" programme since its launch.
- Mark Easton
Mark Easton has been the BBC News Home Editor since April 2004. The role covers the main areas of UK life and public policy, including welfare, crime, health and education. He was previously the home and social affairs editor at Channel 4 News. Easton had joined ITN in 1996 as the political editor of Channel Five News, he switched to Channel 4 News three years later. Easton began his BBC career as a reporter in 1986, …
- Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle (born 1960) is a British journalist best known for his term as editor of BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme. Liddle was born in South London but brought up in Nunthorpe, Yorkshire. He was educated at Laurence Jackson comprehensive school in Guisborough (also Yorkshire), and while there formed a punk band called "Dangerbird" with some friends. He attended the London School of Economics.
- Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards (born August 18 1961) is one of the chief news presenters for BBC News in the United Kingdom. He regularly presents the BBC Ten O'Clock News on BBC One and an hour-long slot from 5pm on BBC News 24. In 2003, he was made a Fellow of the University of Wales, and in 2005 he became Honorary Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. In 2005, he was appointed Patron of the National College of Music.
- Matt Frei
Matthias Frei (born 26 November, 1963 in Essen, Germany) is the BBC's Washington, D. C. correspondent. Since appointment to that position he has become one of BBC News' best-known faces. He went to Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986. He joined the BBC shortly after graduation. After a year in the German Section of the World Service, he moved to English Language Current Affairs, …
- James Naughtie
James ("Jim") Naughtie (born 9 August 1952) is a BBC journalist and radio news presenter. Since 1994 he has been one of the main regular presenters of Radio 4's "Today" programme.
- Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is a British newsreader, currently working predominantly as a co-presenter of the "BBC Six O'Clock News" with George Alagiah. She is also currently taking part in a trial on BBC One in Birmingham, where she is presenting a special news update, between 60-90 seconds long.
- Andrew Neil
Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21 1949, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Neil made his name at "The Sunday Times" where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of "The Business" and (from 2005) "The Spectator". Press Holdings sold "The Scotsman" in December 2005, ending Neil's relationship with the newspaper.
- Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke KBE (November 20, 1908 - March 30, 2004) was a British-American journalist and broadcaster. Born in England, he became a naturalized American citizen, and lived in New York City with his family for most of his adult life.
- Robin Lustig
Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948) is a BBC journalist and radio broadcaster who currently presents programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. After studying politics at the University of Sussex, Lustig became a foreign correspondent for the European news agency Reuters and was based in the Spanish capital, Madrid, later moving to Paris and Rome. He then worked for the British broadsheet Sunday paper The Observer for twelve years, …
- Orla Guerin
Orla Guerin is the BBC Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg. She has extensive experience having been based in many areas including Jerusalem (where she reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the West Coast of the USA, Southern Europe, Kosovo, Macedonia, the Basque country in northern Spain, and in Moscow, where she covered the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000. She first came to attention as a journalist and foreign correspondent with RTÉ News.
- Nicholas Witchell
Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell (born September 23 1953) is a British journalist. He is the current royal and diplomatic correspondent for BBC News. Witchell was born in Shropshire and educated at Epsom College, a famous British Independent school in Surrey, and later studied law at the University of Leeds, where he edited the student newspaper. He has worked for the BBC since 1976. He reported from Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands during the 1982 Falklands War.