Adrian Finighan (born 20 December 1964) is a British journalist, working as a presenter and reporter for the television channel Al Jazeera English (AJE). He is based at AJE’s World headquarters in Doha and presents programmes from there.

Finighan's interest in broadcast news journalism began in his early teens. After leaving school, he was offered the chance to study 'on the job' for a recognised journalism qualification with the South Wales radio station where he had been working part time since the age of 16.

Finighan joined the BBC in 1988, working at BBC Local Radio as a reporter and producer. He later moved on to national radio, becoming a newsreader on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 prior to moving into television news by joining the BBC's Business Unit. He later became a regular presenter on international news channel BBC World, as well as appearing on UK domestic counterpart, BBC News 24. He joined CNN International from the BBC in early 2006 and worked there until 2010. He also owns a company with his brother.

Finighan made a short appearance as a news anchor in the movie V for Vendetta.

External links[link]

• Adrian Finighan Website
• Finighan Media, The company Adrian set up with his brother

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Jane Hill
Jane Hill in 2011
Born	Jane Hill (1969-06-10) 10 June 1969 (age 43) Sussex, England
Occupation	Journalist, Presenter, Newsreader
Notable credit(s)	BBC News

Jane Hill (born 10 June 1969) is a British newsreader working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters on the BBC News Channel, the corporation's 24-hour rolling news service, and is a relief anchor for the BBC News at One, as well as regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News. She also occasionally presents The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

Biography[link]

Born in Sussex,^[1] she was raised in London. She first joined her local BBC Radio station as a junior music correspondent, but knew little about the local indie bands.^[1]

After studying politics at Queen Mary, University of London, Hill worked at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC before joining the BBC on a full-time basis at the end of 1991.

Broadcasting career[link]

After completing the BBC journalism training programme,^[1] Hill joined BBC Radio Five Live at the station's launch, remaining there as a producer for 18 months. She moved into television following completion of the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme. She went on to join BBC Radio Berkshire and South Today as a presenter, before moving later to national news.

When BBC News launched its new 24 hour channel in November 1997, Hill joined, and was originally an overnight presenter, also appearing on the channel's international counterpart BBC World News during the simulcast between the two channels. During her time with BBC News, she has presented coverage of a wide range of stories and events, including a week of special programmes from Washington DC in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.^[1] She also went on to present live coverage on BBC News and BBC World News of the first anniversary commemorations at Ground Zero in New York.

She presented numerous special programmes on BBC One and BBC Two during the war in Iraq, and in December 2003, on the day US forces captured Saddam Hussein, she broadcast for nearly eight hours continuously on both terrestrial channels, BBC News, and BBC World News.^[1]

Hill led the local reporting in Portugal in 2007, for the BBC's coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Flying to Portugal the day the news broke, she spent much of May there, and conducted the BBC’s first interview with Kate and Gerry McCann.^[2] She returned to the Algarve for all the major developments in the story, and made a half hour documentary about the case at the end of that year.^[3]

Since April 2006, she has presented alongside Matthew Amroliwala between 1100 and 1400, Monday to Friday. Previously, she presented with Chris Eakin from 1900-2200 on Monday to Thursday evenings. Hill also presents news bulletins on BBC One, and in the past has made occasional appearances presenting BBC Breakfast. She is an occasional relief presenter for the BBC Weekend News on BBC One.

On Monday 16 August 2010, she began a week sitting in for Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2's music and news programme.

Personal life[link]

In her spare time, Hill is a keen supporter of the arts, and enjoys food and wine - as well as swimming, going to the gym, and listening to The Archers.

She lives in North London with her partner Sara, a camera operator, and they are planning a civil partnership.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• BBC Pressoffice Biography
• Jane Hill at the Internet Movie Database

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Mishal Husain
Born	(1973-02-11) 11 February 1973 (age 39) Northampton, England
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	Pakistani
Education	New Hall, Cambridge European University Institute
Occupation	Newsreader, Journalist, news presenter
Notable credit(s)	HARDtalk Extra BBC Breakfast
Religion	Muslim
Spouse	Meekal Hashmi
Children	3
Website
Profile

Mishal Husain (Urdu: مشعل حسین) (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973 in Northampton, England^[1]) is a British television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten, and occasionally presents Newsnight.

Early life[link]

Mishal Husain is of Pakistani origin. Her grandfather, Syed Shahid Hamid, was an army officer serving in the Indian Army prior to the 1947 Partition, as a private Military Secretary of Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck.^[2] In the wake of India’s independence, led by Mohandas Gandhi, Husain’s grandfather and family “didn’t feel that he (Gandhi) represented them.”^[3] Husain herself has explained the matter in the following way:^[4]

S. Shahid Hamid wrote a book called Disastrous Twilight about early days of independent India:^[5]

In the wake of this chaotic situation and violent clashes between different religious groups following India’s independence, the family escaped to Pakistan in 1947, on the personal aeroplane of Field Marshal Auchinleck, thus escaping the dangerous journey by train that most refugees had to undertake.^[2]

Husain herself was born in the United Kingdom. When she was two, the family moved to the United Arab Emirates, where her father practised as a doctor. Husain attended the British School in Abu Dhabi before returning to the UK at the age of 12 to complete her education at Cobham Hall, an independent school in Cobham, Kent.^[1] She studied Law at New Hall, Cambridge and graduated in 1995, followed by a Master's degree in International and Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, with a thesis on the legal status of Bosnian refugees in Europe.^[6][7]

Having studied Russian at school, she spent six months living in Russia and taught English in Moscow as well as taking the opportunity to travel through the country, and states of the former Soviet Union including Uzbekistan and Georgia.

Journalism career[link]

Husain gained her first experience of journalism at the age of 18, spending three months as a city reporter in Islamabad at Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper The News. Then, while at university, she did several stints at the BBC as work experience.^[7]

Her first job was at Bloomberg Television in London from 1996, where she was a producer and sometime presenter. Two years later she joined the BBC in 1998 as a producer in the newsroom and for the News 24 channel, and then in the Economics and Business Unit. Within a few months she moved in front of the camera and has since worked in a variety of roles: on the daily Breakfast programme, on Asia Business Report (based in Singapore), and as a presenter of business news on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. From September 2002 she was the corporation's Washington correspondent, serving as the main news anchor through the buildup to the invasion of Iraq and during the war. She has interviewed many high-profile figures including Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.^[7]

As of 2011, Husain is hosting BBC programme Impact which airs Monday to Friday on BBC World News, but in spring and summer 2011 was engaged on making a documentary on the Arab spring, for airing in the autumn of 2011. She presents the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One.^[6] On 8 May 2010, she published an autobiographical essay in The Independent based on a nostalgia trip to the UAE.^[8] IHusain is also a relief presenter of the BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten. She has occasionally presented Newsnight on BBC Two.

On 2 December 2011 it was announced that Husain would be part of the BBCs Olympic Presenting team.^[9]

Other work[link]

When the first series of Star Spell - a spin-off of Hard Spell that had only appeared before as a one-off episode - aired, Husain appeared as word pronouncer, replacing Nina Hossain. She continued in this role throughout the second series of Hard Spell.

Husain appeared in a round of the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind in 2010, coming third out of four. Her specialised subject was the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis. She is also one of the judges for the Amnesty International Media Awards.^[6][10]

She also appeared on a show titled Gandhi that was broadcast by the BBC in March 2012.

Recognition[link]

In 2009, The Times named Husain as one of the most influential Muslim women in Britain.^[11][12]

Personal life[link]

Husain married Meekal Hashmi in July 2003. Hashmi, a London solicitor, heads the in-house team at Old Mutual Asset Managers, dealing with the legal complexities of investment & hedge funds. Although Husain's and Hashmi's mothers were at college together in Lahore and their families knew each other, it was not an arranged marriage. The couple have three sons,^[7][13] her eldest, Rafael was born in 2004, and she gave birth to twin boys on 19 June 2006. She returned from maternity leave to present the evening news on 17 December 2006.

See also[link]

• List of British people of Pakistani descent

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Significant others: Mishal Husain Times Online, 17 October 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} Gandhi, episode 3: The Road to Freedom. A three episode documentary, written and directed by Jonathan Mayo and presented by Mishal Husain. BBC, 2009.
3. ^ Gandhi, episode 2: The Rise to Fame. A three episode documentary, written and directed by Jonathan Mayo and presented by Mishal Husain. BBC, 2009.
4. ^ Gandhi, episode 1: The Making of the Mahatma. A three episode documentary, written and directed by Jonathan Mayo and presented by Mishal Husain. BBC, 2009.
5. ^ Syed Shahid Hamid: Disastrous Twilight: a Personal Record of the Partition of India, L. Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, London, 1986.
6. ^ ^{a b c} Biographies - Mishal Husain BBC Press Office, April 2009
7. ^ ^{a b c d} Khairi, Umber (5 January 2004). "Top of the World". Newsline (Pakistan). http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2004/01/top-of-the-world/. Retrieved 30 October 2010. 
8. ^ A return to the Emirates: Mishal Husain's journey back to the UAE was a family holiday with a difference The Independent, 8 May 2010
9. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/london_2012/15998810.stm
10. ^ Mishal Husain KBJ Management, Retrieved 25 June 2010
11. ^ Baroness Warsi named Britain’s most powerful Muslim woman Times Online, 25 March 2009
12. ^ Ambassadors The British Asian Trust
13. ^ 'Hello, good morning, and here's my news' Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2006

External links[link]

• Mishal Husain at the Internet Movie Database

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Nabila Ramdani
Nabila Ramdani on BBC Newsnight
Born	Nabila Ramdani France
Occupation	Journalist
Website
http://www.nabilaramdani.com

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Nabila Ramdani is a Paris-born freelance journalist of Algerian descent who specialises in Anglo-French issues, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World.

Education[link]

Ramdani holds an MPhil in International History from the London School of Economics (LSE),^[1] and an MPhil in British and American History and Literature from Paris 7 University.

She has an Agrégation (France's highest teaching qualification) in English and has held teaching positions at Oxford University (Jesus and Oriel Colleges), the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Paris 7 University.

Professional life[link]

Ramdani began her career in journalism covering the 2007 French presidential elections for a number of UK newspapers, and working as a commentator for BBC TV and radio. She writes regular columns for The Guardian,^[2] London Evening Standard,^[3] and the New Statesman.^[4]

She also produces features and news stories for a wide range of other British publications, including The Daily Telegraph,^[5] The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail,^[6] Mail on Sunday, and The Sunday Times. Nabila’s work also appears in Middle Eastern newspapers including The National,^[7] Gulf News and Daily News Egypt, and she has contributed to the French publications Le Parisien, Marianne, L'Express, Le Monde, and Le Figaro. Ramdani's articles are syndicated worldwide.

Broadcast Media[link]

Nabila Ramdani is a commentator for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky, CNN, PBS, CBS, Russia Today, and other international channels. She has worked for French TV and radio stations such as France Télévisions (France 2, France 3 and France 5), Canal Plus, France Inter, Europe 1, RTL, BFM, among others. She has worked on the other side of the camera too, producing documentaries for prime time television in the UK. She is regularly employed by the BBC to comment on Libya where she voices constant criticism of the NTC and NATO. She criticised the killing of Gaddafi, though the same day's news reports on the BBC also declared; "He was a brutal dictator. He lived by the sword. He died by the sword. So there is no sympathy on the streets of Tripoli." ^[8]

Other work[link]

Ramdani is a Fellow on the UN Alliance of Civilisations Programme ^[9] and is a regular speaker at Wilton Park, the Doha Debates,^[10][11] and the Qatar Foundation.

She has worked with the League of Arab States, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), German Marshall Fund (GMF), Open Society Institute (OSI), CEDAR Network,^[12] Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD),^[13] Franco-British Council, the Search for Common Ground think tank, and Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI).^[14] She is a consultant to the British Council, advising on projects like ‘Our Shared Europe’.

Awards[link]

Ramdani is a winner of the inaugural European Muslim Woman of Influence (EMWI) Award 2010.^[15] She is a nominee for the EU Journalist Award-Together Against Discrimination 2010.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website