Anna Foster
Anna has most recently been presenting the 蜜芽传媒 News at One and anchoring in the field for the 蜜芽传媒 News Channel and the 蜜芽传媒 News at Six and Ten, which earned her an RTS award nomination in the prestigious 鈥楴etwork Presenter of the Year鈥� category. Before that, she was a Middle East correspondent for the 蜜芽传媒, based in Beirut and reporting from across the region.
As Middle East correspondent, Anna reported from the epicentre of the Turkish earthquake using just a mobile phone, as one of the first journalists on the scene. In recent years she’s covered the events of October 7th and the Israel-Gaza war, the conflict in Ukraine, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and the famine in South Sudan. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan she embedded four times with British military forces, and returned to Iraq and Syria years later to report on the humanitarian crisis caused by the rise of the Islamic State group.
She has a strong background in radio, having spent nearly a decade presenting 蜜芽传媒 5 Live Drive and guiding audiences through some of the biggest news and sport stories of recent times. She regularly broadcasts across the 蜜芽传媒, from her former home at Radio 1 Newsbeat to the 蜜芽传媒 World Service, as well as writing for the 蜜芽传媒 News website. She joined the 蜜芽传媒 in April 2002.
Anna is also an award-winning documentary-maker. She won Gold New York Radio Awards for her features 15 Minutes from Mosul and From The Ground Up – both for the World Service – which focussed on the under-reported conflict in the Central African Republic. Her 5 Live team also won the Association of British Science Writers award in 2019 for a special programme on the groundbreaking Women of NASA.
