The World Today with Maryam Moshiri, a brand new weekday night information programme on the BBC News Channel, begins to air at present.
From 18:00 to twenty:00 GMT for worldwide audiences, and 19:00-20:00 GMT for UK audiences, Maryam Moshiri will anchor a information present devoted to worldwide information – bringing the perfect of the BBC’s world journalism to audiences within the UK and around the globe.
Focusing on the massive tales of the day, The World Today with Maryam Moshiri will showcase the BBC’s unparalleled world footprint of journalists and editors to provide essentially the most up-to-date and expansive take a look at the world round us. The viewers will hear reviews from the BBC’s world language companies and specialists of their areas, in addition to the BBC’s well-known international correspondents.
The World Today with Maryam Moshiri will proceed the BBC News Channel’s dedication to reside and breaking information, in addition to unpacking the largest world tales of the day with in-depth interviews, and evaluation and experience from the BBC’s most skilled worldwide correspondents.
The BBC News Channel is the most-watched information channel within the UK and has a worldwide viewers of 108m.
Maryam Moshiri, Chief Presenter, BBC News Channel, says: “I’m delighted to be launching The World Today on BBC News. This is my dream job and I’m so excited to be working with the unrivalled workforce of BBC journalists each within the UK and around the globe.
“At a time when world occasions are affecting all our lives every day The World Today will inform and likewise make sense of what’s occurring globally. I wish to join with our numerous UK and world audiences, whether or not they be watching within the morning in Los Angeles or tuning in within the night from Dubai. I additionally suppose folks wish to be entertained in addition to knowledgeable, so we plan to deliver audiences the lighter aspect of stories – with an eye fixed on what’s trending and what individuals are speaking about in houses and workplaces.”
Paul Royall, Executive Editor, BBC News Channel, says: “The World Today with Maryam Moshiri showcases the BBC’s unparalleled worldwide experience, and calibre of worldwide reporters and editors. With an vital mixture of breaking information and in-depth tales, it should present audiences within the UK and around the globe with the knowledge and context they should perceive world occasions.”
The World Today with Maryam Moshiri joins the prime-time night line up alongside The Context with Christian Fraser at 20:00 – 22:00 GMT – which is thought for its conversational type and deal with dialogue and debate with common panellists and evaluation.
This transfer is the latest evolution of the channel because it launched as a single information channel operation final yr. Since then, the channel has been creating its content material and digital integration to deliver the perfect of BBC journalism to UK and worldwide audiences.
About Maryam Moshiri
Maryam was introduced as one of many BBC’s chief presenters in February 2023. She beforehand introduced on the World News channel for almost 4 years, the place she hosted most of the flagship programmes, together with Outside Source, The Context, Impact, Global, and Newsday, in addition to being one of many common faces on the BBC News channel.
Prior to this, she labored as a business presenter on BBC News for 16 years, presenting flagship business programmes together with World Business Report, Talking Business and the Business Briefing. She was additionally the primary face of business on Afternoon Live on the BBC News Channel.
Maryam has introduced and reported on among the greatest tales of the previous 20 years, from the financial impression of the 9/11 assaults to the Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine. She has interviewed among the world’s prime politicians, economists, buyers and CEOs.
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