Karin Giannone

Karin Thandi Giannone (born in 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a television newsreader working in the United Kingdom. She is the main London-based presenter of the BBC World News/BBC News overnight bulletins Wednesday-Friday including BBC World News Today, as well as other shifts on the BBC World News and BBC News channels. Her work assignments have included a stint presenting World News Today from Washington at 10pm EST during July/August 2008, and a special series of reports from Afghanistan in 2002 while a reporter on ITV Anglia.

Karin moved from Johannesburg to the United Kingdom at the age of two. She was brought up in Edinburgh and Kent and first went to the Anglia region as a student at Cambridge University where she gained a first class honours degree in Modern Languages; she speaks French, German and Italian. She was the editor of Cambridge University’s "Varsity" student newspaper in 1994-5. She joined Anglia Television in Norwich as a news trainee in 1997 producing, reporting and presenting for regional news bulletins.

In 1999 her language skills and broadcasting skills helped her land a role as a reporter and presenter for Channel 4’s Football Italia series, where she covered the Italian Soccer scene for a season, flying between the UK and Italy every week. Her real interest however remained in news reporting. "I always wanted to be a TV reporter and when I was small used to pretend I was Kate Adie," she says. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. She later moved to London to present a variety of shifts for Sky News, before joining BBC News in 2005. Karin lives in London with her husband Neil.

Her interests include horse-riding, going to the gym, scuba diving, travelling, eating out (especially Indian food) and watching lots of TV, with news and documentaries her favourite programmes. Karin gave birth to a baby boy, Louis, on the 23rd of October 2003 and a daughter Beatrice in January 2006. [http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/karingiannone.php]

External links

* [http://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=karingiannone Karin Giannone Profile]
* [http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/qanda/answers.php?page=karingiannone Karin Giannone Q & A]