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Best loved for her remarkable skills as a British journalist and newsreader within her illustrious career in the media industry, Mishal Husain has ended her 26-year-old stint with BBC Radio and BBC Television.
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Mishal Husain delivers her final show as a news presenter at BBC Radio 4 Today program and bids adieu to her 26-year-long stint with BBC:
Today was a bittersweet moment for BBC News listeners because Mishal Husain delivered her final show on BBC Radio 4 Today program and gave her genuine thanks to listeners and colleagues for her final show with the corporation. The presenter is about to depart from her role on the show in the new year, moving to the front of a new interview series at financial and data media company Bloomberg as editor-at-large of Bloomberg Weekend Edition.
After a heartfelt tribute that saw journalists Justin Webb, Sarah Montague, and John Humphrys celebrate the 51-year-old for her illustrious legacy and countless milestones that Husain has achieved during her impressive and solid 26-year-long stint with the broadcaster, she said: “Well, the moment is now upon me, time to say farewell to this programme and to the BBC.”
She also added how she has discovered a lot more about herself as a person than when Husain initially joined here. Elaborating more on those lines, she adds, “In my time here, I have found more in me than I knew was there, and I journey on to discover what yet might lie within.”
Mishal also shared, “In the tradition of my faith, when people used to go on pilgrimage in generations past, they would not only take their leave of friends and associates, but they would ask for their forgiveness because, in those days, many did not return from the arduous journey.”
Opening up on how she wanted to ask true forgiveness from people, listeners, and colleagues for any slip-ups or mistakes within the last 26 years of her career at the corporation, also signed off with a song for listeners at her final show and giving a heartfelt thanks to her colleagues across the UK and the world, Husain shares, “I hope therefore you might forgive me for the times I crashed the pips, squeezed the weather, any other dastardly deeds, and yes, the one 8.10 that did involve swearing. But my heartfelt thanks go to all my BBC colleagues across the UK and around the world, and to you, wherever you are listening from, for your time and your trust. On this last morning, I’ve been allowed music, and so I’m going to leave you with my choice, which is The Monkees’ Daydream Believer that is coming up.”
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) December 17, 2024
Who is Mishal Husain and her early life:
Mishal Husain is best known for her sharp mind and ace skills as a host and presenter. More so, she is known as a globally acclaimed British newsreader and journalist for BBC Television and BBC Radio and a Sunday Times bestselling writer.
Mishal Husain, the ace and acclaimed British journalist, was born to Pakistani parents on March 12, 1973, in Northampton, England. Interestingly, Mishal’s mother was not only a teacher but was also a former producer for Pakistan Television Corporation. Mishal’s father was a urologist. Talking about family background, Mishal also has a younger brother. She is the granddaughter of Syed Shahid Hamid, the first Director-General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.
Mishal Husain’s humble career beginnings as a journalist at The News and her gradual rise to fame as a news presenter and more at BBC:
Husain gained her first breakthrough experience in journalism at the age of 18. She spent three months as a city reporter in Islamabad, Pakistan, at the English-language newspaper The News. Then, while studying at university, she did several impressive stints at the BBC as work experience.
However, her first massive and global job experience and exposure was at Bloomberg Television in London in 1996, where she was a producer and sometime presenter. Two years later, in 1998, she officially joined the BBC as a junior producer in the newsroom for the News 24 channel and then in the Economics and Business Unit.
Within a few months, she worked hard as a journalist, and that dedication paved the way for Husain to be in front of the camera as a news presenter and host for BBC. Since then, Husain has worked in various roles. These include her roles as a news presenter on the daily Breakfast program, on Asia Business Report (based in Singapore), and as a presenter of business-related news on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
From September 2002, she was the BBC corporation’s Washington correspondent and served as the key news anchor through the buildup to the invasion of Iraq and during the war. She has also interviewed many globally prominent high-profile figures like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Paul Kagame, and Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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