Katie Derham Bio - Biography

Name Katie Derham
Height
Naionality British
Date of Birth 18 June 1970,
Place of Birth Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Famous for
Katie Derham presents the ITV Lunctime News at 12.30pm alongside Nicholas Owen, and London Tonight, the capital's news flagship which is broadcast at 6pm.

Katie was voted New TV Talent of the Year in March 1999 at the Television & Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards.

She joined ITV News in January 1998 as Media and Arts Correspondent and became Media and Arts Editor in 2001.

She was Saturday newscaster on ITV from the beginning of 1999. She fronted her own media show, Wide Angle, on the digital channel ITV2 from December 1998 to December 1999.

Katie also also presents the Hall of Fame Concert on Classic FM every Sunday at 5pm and presented the Classical Brit Awards from 2001 to 2004.

She came to ITV News after spending four years with the BBC, where she started her journalistic career as a researcher on Radio 4's Moneybox.

In 1995 she won the Bradford and Bingley Best Personal Finance Broadcaster Award for her work as a presenter on Radio 5 Live's Moneycheck programme. She also edited Radio 4's Financial World Tonight programme.

She moved across to BBC television in 1996 as a consumer affairs correspondent and subsequently became a reporter for Film '96 and Film '97, interviewing many of the top names of American and UK cinema.

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