Mishal Husain to hitch Bloomberg after leaving BBC Radio 4 As we speak

Radio 4 As we speak programme co-presenter Mishal Husain is to depart the BBC within the New 12 months, the company has introduced.

Husain has been a number on the station’s flagship present affairs morning present for 11 years, and in addition fronted the broadcaster’s latest UK normal election debates.

Husain, who joined the BBC in 1998, has additionally offered the BBC Information at Six and Ten, as properly its information channels.

She’s going to be part of Bloomberg to host a brand new interview collection and be editor-at-large of its Weekend Version.

The 51-year-old stated in an announcement that her BBC profession had “concerned many memorable moments, going to locations I might by no means in any other case have seen, witnessing historical past and being a part of stay, nationwide dialog on Radio 4”.

She added: “I’ll all the time be glad about the alternatives the BBC gave me, and need the organisation and everybody who’s a part of it the perfect.”

Owenna Griffiths, editor of the As we speak programme, described Husain as “not solely a formidable journalist and first-rate presenter” but additionally “an especially beneficiant and considerate colleague”.

“It has been my nice privilege to work alongside her and, together with the As we speak group, I am going to miss her enormously however want her all the perfect in her new enterprise,” she stated.

Husain is considered one of 5 presenters on the As we speak programme’s present roster, alongside Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Emma Barnett and Amol Rajan.

She earned between £340,000 and £344,999 within the final monetary 12 months for about 140 shifts presenting As we speak, 20 days studying the information on BBC One, plus As we speak’s debates and different tasks.

In an announcement issued by her new employer, she stated: “I’m delighted to be fronting a brand new interview present that can attain audiences in several codecs as a part of the thrilling plans for Bloomberg Weekend Version.

“Ours is an ever extra advanced world however the need for considerate conversations crosses all borders. I stay up for working with a brand new group at Bloomberg – the place which gave me my first job in journalism.”

Husain started her journalism profession at Bloomberg Tv within the Nineties earlier than becoming a member of the BBC.

Throughout her profession on the company, she additionally reported from international locations starting from the US to Pakistan.

She interviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, after their engagement in 2017; and was a part of the protection of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and the King’s coronation.

She additionally made documentaries concerning the lives of the late Queen, Mahatma Gandhi and Malala Yousafzai, in addition to the Arab Spring in 2011.

Earlier this 12 months, the British presenter’s e book, Damaged Threads: My Household From Empire to Independence, grew to become a Sunday Instances bestseller.

The Guardian stated it noticed her weave “a young tapestry with the tales of her 4 grandparents within the new state of Pakistan”.

The information of Husain’s departure from the BBC comes 5 months after Martha Kearney left the As we speak programme.