Tatiana Sanchez launched her broadcasting career by gaining valuable experience with major UK networks, including work placements at Sky News and Sky Sports News. She built her foundational live broadcasting skills as a news and sports presenter and producer for Latest TV, a regional television channel based in Brighton, and worked as a freelance reporter for Heart Radio. This early phase of her career allowed her to hone her skills in multi-platform journalism, live presentation, and news production.
Tatiana Sanchez profile rose significantly when she joined the national news channel GB News in January 2022. At the network, she established herself as a versatile asset, working both in front of and behind the camera. She became a regular face delivering live breaking news updates and hourly bulletins, while also contributing to popular daytime programmes such as Britain’s Newsroom and Your GB News Five A Day.
In addition to Tatiana Sanchez anchoring duties, Tatiana Sanchez has served as a producer for prime-time programming, including Tonight LIVE with Mark Dolan. Her dual expertise in live presentation and behind-the-scenes production culminated in major industry recognition when she won a TV Excellence Award in October 2025 for her broadcasting work with the channel.
Ellie Costello is a National Reporter and anchor at GB News. She began her journalism career at the BBC World Service, later moving to the Victoria Derbyshire Programme, before joining GB News as South-East reporter in May 2021, before the channel launched.
Alongside her national reporting role, Ellie Costello can be seen as a regular presenter of Weekend Breakfast alongside Stephen Dixon.
She has covered national and international stories, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, the coronations of King Charles III, the 2024 UK and US general elections, and special live broadcasts from Normandy for D-Day 80. She also narrated portions of the Disney documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.
Yasmin Bodalbhai is a British journalist and television presenter known for her work at ITV News. With her reporting experience spanning from regional news to national broadcasting, Yasmin has made her mark as a trusted news anchor, celebrated for her empathy-driven journalism and in-depth coverage of important social issues. This article delves into her career, personal life, and public presence, while also examining some of the aspects that remain private.
Yasmin Bodalbhai’s career in the media industry began in radio. She worked for several radio stations, including Eagle Radio, STAR Radio, and KL.FM, where she gained invaluable experience in news production, reporting, and live broadcasting. Her time in radio laid the foundation for her transition to television and provided her with a versatile set of skills that have been crucial to her work in visual journalism.
Yasmin Bodalbhai joined ITN as a trainee journalist and quickly worked her way up to becoming an Assistant News Editor. Her skills in news production were recognized, and soon she was given on-camera opportunities. Yasmin’s work as a reporter and presenter for ITV News Central, based in Birmingham, saw her covering a wide range of stories, from local social issues to major breaking news events.
Her ability to handle complex stories and report with empathy and accuracy led to her advancement to national-level roles. Today, Yasmin is known for presenting major national bulletins, including the ITV Lunchtime News, as well as weekend evening news and the 6 pm news for ITV London.
Tessa Chapman has been Chief Correspondent for 5 News since 2011, reporting at home and abroad for the channel. She also regularly presents the flagship news show at 5pm.
Shortlisted for ‘Journalist of the Year’ by the Society of Editors in 2022 and 2023, Tessa’s work includes award-winning investigations into eating disorders and the taboo subject of child to parent abuse, and long-form reports into social issues including drug rehabilitation, gambling and children in care.
Tessa Chapman has been at the heart of the biggest stories in recent years, reporting from Kyiv as Russia invaded Ukraine, from Turkey in the aftermath of the earthquake and presenting live from the studio to break the news of the Queen’s death to viewers. She has travelled extensively during her career, covering conflicts in Gaza and Libya, refugee crises in the Middle East and Europe, shooting tragedies and the gun rights debate in the US and natural disasters and climate issues in Indonesia, Kenya and Iceland.
Before her current role, Tessa Chapman was North of England Correspondent for Sky News. Her first job in television was as a reporter for ITV Granada. She started her career in local commercial radio in Manchester, where she was sent to interview the Prime Minister Tony Blair on her first day.
Laura Kuenssberg is a Scottish journalist and television presenter. She was the political editor of BBC News from 2015 to 2022, and was the first woman to hold the position. She has since presented the BBC’s weekend political discussion programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
Laura Kuenssberg previously served as the BBC’s chief political correspondent and was the first business editor of ITV News. She was also the chief correspondent for Newsnight
between February 2014 and July 2015.
Laura Kuenssberg won the regional Royal Television Society “Most Promising Newcomer” award in 2001 while working as home affairs correspondent for BBC North East and Cumbria.
In 2009, she was appointed chief political correspondent for the BBC. Laura Kuenssberg reported for BBC One bulletins, Daily Politics and the BBC News channel. In May 2010, her presence on BBC Television was so ubiquitous in the period between the 2010 United Kingdom general election and the formation of the Cameron–Clegg coalition that journalist David Aaronovitch coined the term “Kuenssbergovision”.
Laura Kuenssberg took up the newly created role of business editor for ITV News. She also contributed towards business reporting on ITV’s current affairs strand, Tonight.
On 12 November 2013, it was announced that she would leave ITV to return to the BBC as chief correspondent and a presenter of Newsnight, replacing Gavin Esler in the latter role. She joined the Newsnight team in February 2014.
Between the 2017 United Kingdom general election and Brexit in 2020, Laura Kuenssberg also co-presented the BBC’s Brexitcast podcast alongside Katya Adler, Adam Fleming and Chris Mason, which was then retitled as the Newscast podcast.
In September 2023, Laura Kuenssberg presented Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos; a three-part political documentary series, which was broadcast on BBC2.
Laura Kuenssberg was the host of the BBC’s election-night coverage for the 2024 United Kingdom general election alongside Clive Myrie.
Anne McAlpine is a Scottish journalist, newsreader and weather presenter working for BBC Alba and BBC Scotland. She is best known for presenting Reporting Scotland and Landward, and narrating Scotland’s Home of the Year.
Anne McAlpine first began her broadcasting career as a contributor to the Scottish Gaelic-language BBC programme Dè a-Nis?,. McAlpine realised her aim of becoming a Gaelic newsreader/broadcaster at this stage, and continued to progress her career with independent production company MNE Media.
With the emergence of BBC Alba, Anne McAlpine became a main presenter of the European current affairs programme Eòrpa, as well as taking on roles presenting various other programmes including An Là and the Scottish Gaelic-language weather.
As the broadcaster’s career progressed, she became an English-language presenter for late bulletins of Reporting Scotland on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, as well as for BBC Scotland’s rural affairs programme Landward. Since 2019, Anne McAlpine has narrated Scotland’s Home of the Year.
On radio, Anne McAlpine hosts the Gaelic-language drive time show Aithris an Fheasgair on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal four times a week.
Anne McAlpine has fronted several of her own shows for BBC Alba. In 2017, Anne McAlpine toured the North Coast 500 in a Volkswagen Beetle for her programme North Coast 500 – Le Anne Lundon. In 2021, she presented An Cuan Sgith (The Minch), a six-part series produced for BBC Alba in which The Minch, a strait separating mainland Scotland and the western isles, is explored. Anne McAlpine similarly presented An t-Uisge/Rain Stories, a BBC Alba series discovering the influence of rain in culture and tradition
in 2022.
Anne McAlpine is based at BBC Scotland’s headquarters known as Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
Joanne Malin was born in 1967 to parents Kenneth and Dorothy and has 2 siblings. Joanne Malin is married but has no children. Originally from the Moseley area of Birmingham, Joanne Malin trained to be a dancer at the Italia Conti Academy in London and worked in local theatre productions. Her first professional show was Jack and the Beanstalk with Russ Abbot at the Birmingham Hippodrome, performing as Little Miss Muffet in the chorus. She then did a provincial tour with the show 42nd Street, before taking her next role as Frenchie in a six-month sell-out tour of Grease.
After more panto in Birmingham, she took a nine-month contract dancing on the QE2. At the age of 25, she then switched career and retrained by taking a National Council for the Training of Broadcasting Journalists course at Portsmouth, where she graduated with a distinction and won a prize for Best Documentary. Joanne started out working in the news departments of local radio stations before being hired by Reuters to work on breakfast news bulletins for Virgin Radio.
From here, Joanne Malin switched from radio to television, despite having no previous experience, and joined the infamous cable channel, L!VE TV in London as a newsreader and a stand-in presenter. During her time at the station, she presented coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1998, Malin joined Central Television (where she had already made a few guest appearances in her previous career as a dancer) and became anchorwoman for the West Midlands edition of Central News (later Central Tonight). She has also made appearances in regional programmes broadcast across the whole Central region.
In August 2006, Joanne Malin made the headlines after accidentally swearing during an outside broadcast on Central Tonight. She was in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire with the Central Tonight tour bus, in overcast weather conditions, when she ad-libbed “…it would be lovely here in the sun, but it’s pissing it down”. Joanne Malin apologised shortly after this on-air mistake.
On 10 October 2008, she announced her decision to leave ITV Central, shortly after the announcement of 60 job losses at the station and a major restructuring of Central News. Joanne Malin presented her final programme for the station on 31 October 2008. A week beforehand, Joanne Malin announced live during an interview on BBC WM that she would be joining the BBC on a two-year contract. She has presented a mid-morning show on BBC WM since February 2009, with a view to contributing to Midlands Today and the West Midlands edition of Inside Out. In early 2012 she moved to the lunchtime slot on BBC WM.
On 11 August 2012 it was announced Joanne Malin would leave the station in September 2012, but she continued to present across the BBC Midlands Today output.
Latterly, she has been a regular weekday presenter on the breakfast, lunchtime and flagship 6.30 programmes along with co-presenters Nick Owen, Mary Rhodes and Sarah Falkland.
She has also returned to the stage on three occasions, in 2007, 2008 and 2013, to appear in pantomimes at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre.
Alice Baxter was thrilled to join the BBC in the summer of 2012. She currently presents a mixture of news and business programmes across BBC World, the BBC News Channel, BBC One and BBC Two.
Alice Baxter can regularly be seen presenting World Business Report, grilling CEOs, CFOs and politicians from all around the world. Interview highlights have included WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell, Lloyds of London’s Richard Ward and South Africa’s Minister of Trade & Industry Rob Davies, live from the BRICs summit.
In the news chair, and reporting from the BBC’s World Newsroom, Alice has covered a number of breaking news stories in 2013, including the escalation of tensions in Syria, Egypt and Turkey.
Alice Baxter has also, on occasion, ventured onto the airwaves to present the business segment on the Simon Mayo show on BBC Radio 2.
Prior to joining the BBC, Alice Baxter worked as a presenter at Sky News and in Moscow as a senior international correspondent and presenter for RT where she anchored major news and business stories for over six years, as well as presenting and co-producing an award-winning Russia travel series.
As a correspondent she travelled across the globe, reporting on a range of political, financial and social-interest stories, including a number of extended features from Greenland, the former Yugoslavia, South Ossetia, Austria and South Korea.
A history and drama undergraduate, Alice Baxter holds an MPhil in modern history from Cambridge University and a diploma in broadcast journalism from Cardiff University.
Away from work Alice Baxter tries to make the most of London’s vibrant arts and restaurant scene. A keen traveller and fitness fanatic she also loves to ski and run and cycles pretty much everywhere.
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