Who's your favourite news correspondant?

So, who is your favourite news correspondant?

I have two: Steven Sackur (BBC Washington correspondant) and Keith Mates(Sky News Washington correspondant) - great reporters, with a real flair for their job, I think.

How about you?

Tom

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Steven Sackur and that woman in Pakistan who has the strange accent - both from BBC News

John Simpson (BBC News), Sangeeta Mhaiskar (BBC News), Lisa Holland (SKY News) and Giles Latcham (BBC News).

BTW didn't Lisa Holland work for BBC News for a few years?

John Simpson and Steven Sacker.

My favourite News Correspondants are:-

Gavin Esler (BBC News)
John Simpson (BBC News)
Jeremy Bowen (BBC News)
Kate Aide (BBC News)
Jenny Bond (BBC News)
Michael Buerke (BBC News during the ethiopia crisis)
and the one whos been in Pakistan doing some reports but dont know her name

Im a totally dedicated BBC News fan so thats why there is no ITN, Sky News, etc.

Paul

Phillippa Thomas(BBC NEWS)

I have several favourite reporters/correspondents:

John Pienaar
Asad Ahmed
Ben Brown
Kate Adie

What happened to Hilary Andersson, the Jersulam corespddent for BBC News?

Hilary Anderson is the woman with the strange accent who normally is in Jerusalem, but now reporting from Pakistan.

Lyse Doucet

http://www.bbcworld.com/Content/About/Presenters/News_Presenters/pictures/photo_lysedoucet.jpg

She reporting a lot at the moment and I especially like her accent.

She was born in eastern Canada, in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and has a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours Degree from Queen's University at Kingston.

Yes she did.
She was at Spotlight in Plymouth for many years before moving to London as a reporter for News 24. She moved to SKY earlier this year.

Interesting to see so many of you say Stephen Sackur ... very interesting;)

I can't say I found it interesting. Sackur may as well be dead, his reports need a little more flair, to say the least.

Without a tiny doubt it has to be Keith Graves. The Guardian did a special media horoscope on Graves - never been done on a TV reporter before, to my knowledge - so he must be something special. If you don't know who I mean, it's Sky's top Washington correspondent. He knows so much about what he's talking about and it just one of those people you can watch and trust what he's saying.

In the interests of fairness and balance I'm trying to think of a BBC reporter I feel truely impressed with. But I can't, so I won't bother. Ohh no! Wait a moment, now I really don't know her name so some of the BBC knowledgables with have to help me out. She was one of the top reporters on election night, and she presented that Conference Lark on BBC Parliament the other night. Her name begins with a Z, I think, but I can't remember for the life of my who she is. Very good reporter though, not used nearly enough.