Philippa Thomas

Philippa Thomas (born 22 November 1965) is a British television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign, at the BBC and a chief news presenter at BBC World News. She is currently presenter of "Coronavirus: Your Stories" on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She was raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

For the West Indian cricketer, see Philipa Thomas.
Philippa Thomas
Born (1965-11-22) 22 November 1965
OccupationJournalist, presenter, newsreader
EmployerBBC
Notable credit(s)
World News Today with Philippa Thomas
BBC World News
BBC News
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While a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University, studying digital media and citizen journalism, a blog post by Thomas reporting a comment by P.J. Crowley received wide coverage,[1] and resulted in Crowley's resignation.

Career

Thomas has reported extensively from the United States, South America, Africa, and continental Europe. She was posted as presenter and special correspondent in the BBC Washington bureau from 2007[2] to 2010, where she anchored political coverage, and filmed original features on U.S. politics, economics and culture. Her stories aired on BBC World News, PBS news broadcasts, BBC America's "World News America", and the BBC online.

Before that, during 2007 and 2008, she presented the 22:00 ET edition of World News Today, a one-hour news programme on the BBC World News channel. From 1997 to 2001 she was also a BBC North America correspondent, providing headline news from the impeachment of President Clinton to the global impact of the 9/11 attacks. From 1990 to 1997 was a BBC Political Correspondent reporting from Westminster, Belfast and Dublin, including extensive coverage of the Northern Ireland peace process.

Thomas was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University from 2010 to 2011. She returned to her BBC broadcast duties in July 2011. Since returning to the UK Thomas has appeared as a correspondent on BBC News.

Since January 2013 Thomas has been a full time presenter on the relaunched BBC World News, first as main presenter of World News Today. She is also an occasional presenter of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and Newshour on the BBC World Service.

Thomas is also a special elections presenter for BBC World Service - anchoring rolling news coverage of UK and US elections since 2015.

In 2018, Thomas made a cameo appearance as herself in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Notes
  1. "See How A Blog Post Brought Down A State Department Spokesman", Noah Davis, Mar. 15, 2011, businessinsider.com
  2. "BBC launches two news programmes from the US", mediaweek.co.uk
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Preceded by
Zeinab Badawi		 Main Presenter of World News Today
2014 – 2017
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Preceded by
Kirsty Lang

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