Sunday, September 23, 2012

Profile: Martine Dennis - Presenter of BBC World Today on Friday



Martine currently presents The World Today on Friday. The programme is simulcast on the BBC News Channel, BBC One and BBC World News. 

Martine is an experienced newsreader born on January 29th, 1961 in London to carribean parents.
Ethically black, her long career started as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN radio. She started making a couple of radio documentaries notably the Zimbabwe - Five years after independence documentary.

She joined the BBC in 1985 as a correspondent for the Iran and Iraq war as well immersing herself in all the conflicts around the globe. She came back to London as the first female producer/presenter of Focus on Africa from Bush house.

Dennis took a break from the BBC in 1989 by joining the Sky News which started on the same year. She became an overnight news presenter until 1991 when she went to South Africa. There, she freelanced for the BBC News. Also, she worked as a presenter and reporter for MNet’s weekly Carte Blanche Programme.

She came back from South Africa in 1995 to briefly work for the BBC again, as a correspondent for BBC1’s Here and Now weekly programme. She then joined the BBC World in 1996 where she has been working ever since. She is considered to be one of the best news anchors in the BBC.

Martine Dennis is mother to two children and lives in London.
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Source: BBC Website

1 comment:

  1. It is a great pleasure to see Martine presenting news. Miss her on BBC for long.

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