List of 100+ Famous Female News Presenters

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List of famous female news presenters, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest female news presenters list contains the most prominent and top females known for being news presenters. There are thousand of females working as news presenters in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic news presenters have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a female aspiring to be a news presenter then the people below should give you inspiration.

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While this isn't a list of all female news presenters, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous female news presenters?" and "Who are the best female news presenters?"
  • Katie Couric
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    Katie Couric

    Born in Arlington, Virginia in 1957, Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric, has carved out a remarkable career in the world of broadcast journalism. The youngest of four children, she inherited her love for news and reporting from her public relations executive father. Couric graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of Virginia in 1979, demonstrating early on her keen interest in understanding the fabric of American society. Her professional journey kicked off at ABC News Bureau before she landed a role as an assignment editor for CNN. However, it was her stint at NBC's Today show that catapulted Couric into the national spotlight. She co-hosted the popular morning news program from 1991 until 2006, earning the reputation as one of America's most beloved television personalities. Her trademark blend of accessible charm and incisive interviewing skills won her several awards, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. In 2006, Couric moved to CBS, making history as the first woman to anchor a major network evening news program solo when she took over CBS Evening News. After five years, she transitioned to ABC News, where she served as a special correspondent. Couric has also showcased her talent through her syndicated talk show, Katie, and several high-profile interviews with influential figures. As a prolific author, her books offer a further glimpse into her insights and experiences. Outside her professional life, Couric is a tireless advocate for cancer research, a cause close to her heart following the loss of her husband to colon cancer.
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  • Rachel Maddow
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    Rachel Maddow

    Rachel Maddow, a distinguished name in the world of political commentary and journalism, has established herself as a potent force through her insightful analysis and thought-provoking discussions. Born on April 1, 1973, in Castro Valley, California, Maddow's intellectual prowess became apparent early on, earning her a spot at Stanford University from where she graduated in public policy. Her thirst for knowledge didn't stop there; she secured a Rhodes Scholarship that led her to obtain a Doctorate in political science from Oxford University, making her the first openly gay Rhodes Scholar. Maddow's career in broadcasting began with a chance opportunity at WRNX radio in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where her vibrant personality and clear-sighted views immediately struck a chord with listeners. This experience paved the way to her groundbreaking stint at Air America Radio, where she hosted her own show. However, it was her move to television in 2008 that catapulted her to national prominence. As the host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, she brought a fresh perspective to political commentary, combining in-depth analysis with riveting storytelling. The show quickly gained a dedicated following, distinguishing itself by breaking down complex issues with clarity and wit. Despite her remarkable success, Maddow has never been one to rest on her laurels. She is frequently found sharing her expertise as a guest on numerous talk shows and news programs. In addition to her work in television, Maddow is also a renowned author. Her debut book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, was a New York Times bestseller and demonstrated her ability to dissect and discuss critical issues with both precision and accessibility. Throughout her career, Maddow has remained a tireless advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and continues to break barriers in the ultra-competitive world of broadcast journalism.
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  • Robin Roberts
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    Robin Roberts

    Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America.After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005). She became co-anchor on Good Morning America in 2005. Her treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome was chronicled on the program, which earned a 2012 Peabody Award for the coverage.
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  • Julie Chen
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    Julie Chen

    Julie Suzanne Chen Moonves (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the U.S. version of the CBS reality-television program Big Brother since its debut in July 2000 and is the longest-serving host of any country's version of the show. Chen Moonves was a co-host and the moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show, The Talk, for eight seasons. Previously, she was a co-anchor of The Early Show on CBS.
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  • Ann Curry
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    Ann Curry

    Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist and photojournalist who has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Syria, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq. Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powerful' list, credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.In June 2012, she became the national and international correspondent-anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today show. She was co-anchor of Today from June 9, 2011, to June 28, 2012, and the program's news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-anchor. She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011.On January 13, 2015, it was announced that Curry would be leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years. In January 2015, Curry founded her own multi-platform media startup. She continues to conduct major news interviews on network television, most recently securing an exclusive interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about the Iran nuclear talks.
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  • Lara Spencer
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    Lara Spencer

    Lara Christine Von Seelen (known professionally as Lara Spencer) (born June 19, 1969) is an American television presenter. She is best known for being the co-anchor for ABC's Good Morning America. She is also a correspondent for Nightline and ABC News. Previously, she was the host of the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine The Insider from 2004 to 2011, and was a regular contributor to CBS's The Early Show. Before then, she was the national correspondent for Good Morning America and spent several years as a lifestyle reporter for WABC-TV. She also hosted Antiques Roadshow on PBS for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, and Antiques Roadshow FYI, a spin-off of Antiques Roadshow, during 2005. She hosts the show Flea Market Flip on both HGTV and the Great American Country channel. In April 2018, Spencer announced she would be only appearing on GMA three days a week to focus on her television producing.
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  • Jill Dando
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    Jill Dando

    Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was a British journalist, television presenter, and newsreader who was 1997 BBC Personality of the Year. At the time of her death, she was the presenter of the BBC programme Crimewatch. On 26 April 1999, Dando was fatally shot outside her home in Fulham, London. A local man, Barry George, was convicted and imprisoned for the murder but was later acquitted after an appeal and retrial. The case remains open.
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  • Fiona Bruce
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    Fiona Bruce

    Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher for Panorama in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the BBC News at Ten as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow, and Fake or Fortune?. Since 10 January 2019 she has also been the presenter of the BBC One television programme Question Time.
  • Sophie Raworth
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    Sophie Raworth

    Sophie Jane Raworth (born 15 May 1968) is an English journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC. She is a senior newsreader mainly presenting BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten. She can often be found presenting state occasions. In 2015, she became the new presenter of consumer affairs programme Watchdog and in 2016, began presenting Crimewatch, both for BBC One.
  • Maria Bartiromo
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    Maria Bartiromo

    Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American television journalist, magazine columnist, and author. She is host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street (the direct successor to the original Wall Street Week on PBS, renamed in early 2018). Bartiromo is global markets editor at Fox Business Network as well as the host of Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, where she has garnered controversy for her pro-Trump advocacy. She hosts Fox Business Global Power Players segments. She worked at CNN for five years before joining CNBC television where she worked for 20 years. In 2013, she joined Fox Business Network and Fox News. At CNBC, she was the anchor of the Closing Bell program and the host and managing editor of On the Money with Maria Bartiromo and is credited for becoming the first reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
  • Shaun Robinson
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    Shaun Robinson

    Shaun Robinson (born July 11, 1962) is an American television host.
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  • Serena Altschul
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    Serena Altschul

    Serena Altschul (born October 13, 1970) is an American broadcast journalist, known for her work at MTV News and CBS.
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  • Louise Minchin
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    Louise Minchin

    Louise Mary Minchin (née Grayson) (born 8 September 1968) is a British journalist and news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC. Since 2006, Minchin has been a regular anchor on the BBC One programme Breakfast, currently co-hosting the show three days a week with Dan Walker. From 2009 until 2012, Minchin co-hosted Real Rescues alongside Nick Knowles and Chris Hollins. She has guest-hosted The One Show a number of times since 2010.
  • Liz Cho
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    Liz Cho

    Liz Cho is a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. She has co-anchored the weekday 4 and 6 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News.
  • Kanika
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    Kanika

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  • Patti Ann Browne
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    Patti Ann Browne

    Patti Ann Browne (born September 10, 1965) is an American news anchor and reporter best known for her work with Fox News Channel from 2000 to 2018.
  • Connie Chung
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    Connie Chung

    Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became only the second female to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News. She was removed in 1995 as CBS Evening News co-anchor after a controversial interview with a fireman, during rescue efforts at the Oklahoma City bombing, which seemed inappropriately combative, and her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.
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  • Anna Ford
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    Anna Ford

    Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is an English former journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. Ford helped launch the British breakfast television broadcaster TV-am. She retired from broadcast news presenting in April 2006 and was a non-executive director of Sainsbury's until the end of 2012. Ford now lives in her home town of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
  • Suchitra Pillai-Malik
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    Suchitra Pillai-Malik

    Suchitra Pillai (born 27 August 1970) is an Indian actress, model, anchor and VJ. A graduate in electronic engineering, she chose a career in arts over engineering. Apart from roles in movies including Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Page 3 (2005), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), and Fashion (2008), Suchitra is a singer in the Indi pop and rock genre with an album Such is Life released in 2011 She is also an accomplished theater artiste.
  • Sandra Sully
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    Sandra Sully

    Sandra Sully (born 18 February 1961) is an Australian news presenter and journalist and editor for Sydney's 10 News First since 2011, previously being the presenter of the news bulletin on Network Ten's Ten Late News with Sports Tonight until she presented the (then) final edition of the program.
  • Erin Moriarty
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    Erin Moriarty

    Erin F. Moriarty (born April 6, 1952) is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She works as a correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery. She has won national Emmy Awards several times.
  • Suzanne Sena
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    Suzanne Sena

    Suzanne Sena is an American television host, anchor, actress and entrepreneur.
  • Lisa Colagrossi
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    Lisa Colagrossi

    Lisa Colagrossi (May 9, 1965 – March 20, 2015) was an American journalist and television news anchor and reporter. She was a reporter for WABC-TV In New York City from September 2001 until her death on March 20, 2015.
  • Joan Bakewell
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    Joan Bakewell

    Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London. She is also an author and playwright and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism.

  • Claire Summers

    Claire Summers is a Welsh news television presenter for BBC Wales. Born in Cardiff, but brought up in Cowbridge, Summers was educated at Howell's in Llandaff. She then gained a BA degree at Aberystwyth University, and a post-graduate degree in journalism from the University of Cardiff.Summers worked at Channel One television in Bristol, where she reported, filmed, edited and presented programmes. Summers joined BBC Wales in 2000. With Summers and Jason Mohammad the youngest members of the BBC Wales Today team, they were often asked to undertake the activity-based reports - such as in 2005, where Summers had to lead a Welsh Black cow called Ceridwen at the Royal Welsh Show. On 8 September 2008, Summers became chief sports presenter for Wales Today.

  • Natarsha Belling

    Natarsha Belling (born 29 May 1975) is an Australian national news presenter on Studio 10.
  • Natasha Kaplinsky
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    Natasha Kaplinsky

    Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News. After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2002 where she co-hosted Breakfast until 2005, when she became the host of the Six O'Clock News. In October 2007, Kaplinsky was recruited to help relaunch Five (now known as Channel 5), reportedly for the highest fee ever paid to a UK newsreader, where she presented a new look, retitled Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky for three years. After leaving Channel 5, she went on to join ITV News as a presenter. Kaplinsky has hosted a series of light entertainment and factual programmes in her career, notably Children in Need and Born to Shine. She was also the subject of the most highly rated Who Do You Think You Are. She is perhaps most famous for being the first ever winner of the first series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. More recently Kaplinsky has co-founded a mother and baby company, Mum & You, with the core purpose of giving back.In 2014 the then PM David Cameron asked Kaplinsky to become a Holocaust Commissioner leading a project to interview 112 survivors. She was awarded an OBE in 2017 for her services to the Holocaust Commission.
  • Jennifer Winget
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    Jennifer Winget

    Jennifer Winget (born 30 May 1985) is an Indian television actress known for her portrayal of Kumud Desai in Saraswatichandra, Maya Mehrotra in Beyhadh and Zoya Siddiqui in Bepannah.
  • Amy Holmes
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    Amy Holmes

    Amy M. Holmes (born July 25, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. Holmes co-hosts, with fellow commentator Michael Gerson, a politically conservative-oriented talk show on PBS titled "In Principle." She is a former contributor to NBC News. Holmes formerly was a news anchor on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV and a former host of TheBlaze's news discussion program Real News. From 2015 to 2016, she hosted Way Too Early, which airs week-days on MSNBC at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, as a lead-in to Morning Joe. She also has appeared as an independent political contributor for CNN and on Fox News, and has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher numerous times.
  • Kyra Phillips
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    Kyra Phillips

    Kyra Phillips (born August 8, 1968) is an American news anchor and reporter. She is best known for her work of thirteen years at CNN.