BBCRadio 4 These days programme co-presenter Mishal Husain is to depart the BBC within the New Yr, the company has introduced.
Husain has been a number at the station’s flagship present affairs morning display for 11 years, and in addition fronted the broadcaster’s fresh UK common election debates.
Husain, who joined the BBC in 1998, has additionally offered the BBC Information at Six and Ten, as smartly its information channels.
She’s going to sign up for Bloomberg to host a brand new interview sequence and be editor-at-large of its Weekend Version.
Husain mentioned in a remark that her BBC occupation had “concerned many memorable moments, going to puts I’d by no means another way have noticed, witnessing historical past and being a part of are living, nationwide dialog on Radio 4”.
She added: “I will be able to at all times be pleased about the alternatives the BBC gave me, and need the organisation and everybody who is a part of it the perfect.”
‘Ambitious journalist’
Owenna Griffiths, editor of the These days programme, described Husain as “now not just a bold journalist and first-rate presenter” but in addition “an especially beneficiant and considerate colleague”.
“It’s been my nice privilege to paintings along her and, in conjunction with the These days workforce, I will pass over her vastly however want her all of the best in her new mission,” she mentioned.
Husain is considered one of 5 presenters at the These days programme’s present roster, along Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Emma Barnett and Amol Rajan.
She earned between £340,000 and £344,999 within the final monetary 12 months for roughly 140 shifts presenting These days, 20 days studying the inside track on BBC One, plus These days’s debates and different initiatives.
In a remark issued through her new employer, she mentioned: “I’m thrilled to be fronting a brand new interview display that may succeed in audiences in several codecs as a part of the thrilling plans for Bloomberg Weekend Version.
“Ours is an ever extra advanced global however the need for considerate conversations crosses all borders. I sit up for running with a brand new workforce at Bloomberg – where which gave me my first process in journalism.”
Occupation highlights
Husain started her journalism occupation at Bloomberg Tv within the Nineties sooner than becoming a member of the BBC.
Throughout her occupation on the company, she additionally reported from nations starting from the USA to Pakistan.
She interviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, after their engagement in 2017; and was once a part of the protection of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and the King’s coronation.
She additionally made documentaries concerning the lives of the past due Queen, Mahatma Gandhi and Malala Yousafzai, in addition to the Arab Spring in 2011.
Previous this 12 months, the British presenter’s e book, Damaged Threads: My Circle of relatives From Empire to Independence, become a Sunday Instances bestseller.
The Mum or dad mentioned it noticed her weave “a young tapestry with the tales of her 4 grandparents within the new state of Pakistan”.
The scoop of Husain’s departure from the BBC comes 5 months after Martha Kearney left the These days programme.
