Samantha Simmonds
| Samantha Simmonds | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Samantha Rose Simmonds 21 August 1979 Bradford, England |
| Occupation | Newsreader, journalist, television presenter |
| Notable credit(s) |
Five News BBC London News Sky News |
Samantha Rose Simmonds (born 21 August 1979)[1][2] is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016.
Early life
Simmonds was born in Bradford and grew up in Leeds[3] where she attended Leeds Girls' High School.[1] She studied for a BA at Liverpool University.[4] Whilst a student in Liverpool, she appeared as a contestant on the ITV television show Blind Date.[5]
Journalism career
After gaining a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University in London in 1995,[6] she worked as a reporter for local radio in Yorkshire before moving to London for a job as a producer on Channel Five News. She was later a presenter on BBC Breakfast and spent two years reporting and presenting BBC London's news programmes before joining Sky News in 2005. She was the first British journalist to break the story of Michael Jackson's death while presenting Sky News.[7] Simmonds left Sky News in 2016, along with several other anchors, as part of a cost-saving exercise.[8]
References
- 1 2 "The Grammar School at Leeds, GSAL, Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, Yorkshire, leading independent co-educational school « The Grammar School at Leeds". gsal.org.uk.
- ↑ "The University of Liverpool". liv.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Samantha Simmonds • Q and A". TV Newsroom.
- ↑ "BBC NEWS – Programmes – Breakfast – Reporters – Samantha Simmonds". bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "About – Samantha Simmonds". Samantha Simmonds.
- ↑ "Samantha Simmonds". sky.com.
- ↑ "Samantha Simmonds Sky News". Samantha Simmonds.
- ↑ "Andrew Wilson and other Sky News anchors leave ship". The Guardian. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.