Joanna Gosling
| Joanna Gosling | |
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| Born | 1971 |
| Occupation | Journalist, Newsreader |
| Spouse(s) | Craig Oliver (years unknown) |
| Notable credit(s) | Sky News BBC Breakfast BBC News Channel BBC Ten O'Clock News |
Joanna Gosling (born 1971) is a television news presenter and broadcast journalist on the United Kingdom rolling news channel BBC News, as well as on the Saturday edition of BBC One's Ten O'Clock News.
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[edit] Career
Gosling was educated at Aylesbury High School in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and at the University of Birmingham, from where she has a degree in French.
She started her broadcasting career at Fox FM in Oxfordshire, before joining Independent Radio News. She worked for Central Television and later Sky News, and has been with the BBC since August 1999. As a presenter on BBC News 24 Gosling initially worked on the overnight slot before moving to the 9am - 1pm morning shift with Ben Geoghegan, and then Phillip Hayton.[1] In December 2003, she moved to a weekend evening slot on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays with Chris Lowe. She had taken over from Anna Jones who moved to her old weekday slot alongside Hayton. During summer 2006, she also appeared as an occasional presenter on BBC Breakfast.
Since 2007 Gosling has been one of the regular presenters of the evening news on the BBC News Channel alongside Ben Brown, between 7pm and 10pm from Monday to Thursday. Until February 2008, the programme included the programme News 24 Tonight. Gosling can also occasionally be seen presenting BBC News at Ten's Saturday news bulletin on BBC One, which she has done since 2008.
In September 2009 she was one of several BBC newsreaders to take part in a charity fundraiser in aid of Leonard Cheshire Disability and the Helen & Douglas House hospices. Gosling, Fiona Bruce, Kate Silverton, Sophie Raworth, and Emily Maitlis performed a medley of songs from The Sound of Music at the Newsroom's Got Talent contest in London, which was presided over by Piers Morgan and Arlene Philips. They lost out to a team from ITV News who performed songs from Grease.[2]
In April 2010 Gosling was at Heathrow Airport reporting on the events surrounding the air travel disruption following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull which forced the closure of airspace throughout much of northern Europe.[3] In May 2010 she was seen reporting from Westminster in the aftermath of the 2010 general election as Labour and the Conservatives tried to negotiate a deal with the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government, and on 11 May broke the news that Gordon Brown would resign as Prime Minister.
In 2008 a clip involving Gosling was included in a list of five "corpsing" on air moments by Channel 4 News, corpsing being a term used in broadcasting to describe someone breaking into uncontrollable laughter live on air. While presenting on the BBC News Channel, she has a giggling fit after forgetting the name of her co-presenter, Julian Worricker.[4]
She is briefly seen in the 2005 television film Supervolcano presenting a breaking news item about the eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park.
[edit] Personal life
Joanna Gosling is married to Craig Oliver, the former head of network programming at ITV News,[5] and former editor in chief of the BBC Six O'Clock and Ten O'Clock News. In May 2009 Oliver was appointed as the new deputy head of the corporation's multimedia newsroom, replacing Mary Hockaday, who had been promoted the previous month to be the new head of the operation that oversees all BBC News output.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Sherwin, Adam (27 September 2005). "Personality clash drives newsman from BBC". London: Times Online. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article571295.ece. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
- ^ Simpson, Richard (25 September 2009). "Fiona Bruce as a cowgirl and Jon Snow as a hippy: Newsreaders as you've never seen them before". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1216031/Fiona-Bruce-cowgirl-Jon-Snow-hippy-Newsreaders-youve-seen-before.html. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ^ Gosling, Joanna (21 April 2010). "First transatlantic flight reaches UK after ash ban lifted". BBC News (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8633867.stm. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ^ "Five corpsing on air moments". Channel 4 News (Channel 4). 28 March 2008. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/media/five%20corpsing%20on%20air%20moments/1887047. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ^ "Media Diary". The Observer. 19 February 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/feb/19/business.theobserver. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
- ^ Lutt, Oliver (20 May 2009). "Craig Oliver made deputy head of BBC multimedia newsroom". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/20/craig-oliver-deputy-head-bbc-multimedia-newsroom. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
[edit] External links
- Joanna Gosling at the Internet Movie Database
- Joanna Gosling at bbc.co.uk
- Joanna Gosling biography at TV Newsroom
