As the oldest commercial television network in the UK, Independent Television (generally known as ITV) has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews during its long history.
Since the ITV network started Independent Television News Limited (ITN) has held the contract to produce national and international news for the ITV Network. Meanwhile, the regional ITV stations have provided local news programmes tailored for their regional audiences.
Jo Andrews – former Political Correspondent and Deputy Political Editor at ITN
Fiona Armstrong – presenter for Border Television's regional news programme Lookaround.and later a newscaster on ITN's News at Ten
Pamela Armstrong – She worked for ITN as a newscaster from 1983 to 1986.
Mark Austin – main presenter of ITV News at Ten. Since joining ITN (on ITV) in 1986, he has specialised in a variety of roles including sports reporter, foreign correspondent, and then newscaster.
Faye Barker - Main newscaster for ITV News London at 5:30 from January 2009 until December 2012. She continues to work with ITN across ITV London & ITV News output.
Carol Barnes – Worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004 as both reporter and newscaster. She died in March 2008.
Gaynor Barnes - Presenter and journalist currently employed by ITV Yorkshire since 1991.
Felicity Barr - First ever female sports correspondent for ITV News in 2001.
Martin Bashir – Left BBC in 1999 to join ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight.
Seán Batty - Meteorologist, currently working for STV.
Andrea Benfield - Journalist and presenter, ITV News: Wales at Six.
Sally Biddulph - Reporter and newsreader at ITV News Central and Political Correspondent for Thames Valley Tonight in Westminster. Joined ITN in 2009 as News Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Presenter on ITV News at 5:30, ITV News at 1:30 and ITV News Saturday primetime bulletins. Since 2014 Newsreader for ITV News London.
Reginald Bosanquet – best known for presenting ITN bulletins in the 1970s. He joined ITN at its start in 1955 as a sub-editor. He later reported from many parts of the world and was the diplomatic correspondent for four years. He also held the 'head anchor' title at ITN between 1974 and 1976, in the absence of Alastair Burnet. He died in 1984.
Tom Bradby – ITV News' political editor since July 2005. He joined ITN as an editorial trainee in 1990 and subsequently became producer for Michael Brunson, ITN's political editor, in 1992. He spent three years (1993–96) as Ireland correspondent. From 1999 to 2001, he was ITN's Asia correspondent. Following this, he became Royal correspondent for ITV News, and subsequently became UK editor before taking up the post of political editor.
Fern Britton - Television presenter, best known as co-presenter for ITV magazine programme This Morning from 1999 - 2009.
Michael Brunson – served as Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor of ITN. He is best known for serving as the political editor between 1986 to 2000 and as an occasional ITN newscaster.
Sir Alastair Burnet – main presenter of News at Ten and ITN election programmes from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1991. Burnet held the 'head anchor' title at ITN from 1967 - the year News at Ten was launched - until 1991, except between 1972 and 1976 when he presented for the BBC and become editor of the Daily Express. He was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in early 1984. He died in July 2012.
Andrea Catherwood – former main presenter for ITV's weekend news bulletins. She joined ITN in April 1998, starting as a newscaster and senior reporter. In these early years, Catherwood also presented the ITN Morning News and filed special reports for News at Ten. Following this she became medical correspondent. She left ITN in September 2006 to front the short-lived political programme, The Sunday Edition.
David Chater – Award-winning former ITN international correspondent. Joined Sky News in 1993.
Fred Dinenage – a television host and newsreader, based in the south of England, he has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (most of them produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian Broadcasting).
Peter Fairley Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Anna Ford – initially worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader at Granada Television. She became a newsreader with ITN, and later helped launch ITV's first breakfast television service, TV-am.
Sandy Gall – former ITN foreign correspondent and news presenter.
Andrew Gardner – presented the first 'News at Ten' with Alastair Burnet in 1967. Following his retirement from ITN, he worked on Thames Television during the 1980s. He died in 1999.
Martin Geissler – Africa correspondent for ITV News since May 2006. He joined ITV News in April 2002 from STV Central's regional news programme Scotland Today, where he was a news reporter and presenter.
Shiulie Ghosh – journalist and reporter for ITV News from 1998 until July 2006.
Bruce Hockin - long-serving main anchor on HTV News.
Gordon Honeycombe – newscaster from 1965 to 1977 at ITN. He was twice voted the most popular newscaster in Britain, by readers of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun. He returned to regular newsreading from 1984 to 1989 as chief newsreader at TV-am, becoming Britain's longest-serving ITV newscaster.
Lucy Kite - News presenter and producer on Central Tonight for ITV Central from 2002. Entertainment correspondent from January 2006. From November 2008appointed relief presenter on West Midlands edition of Central.
Martyn Lewis – a news presenter for HTV and then ITN, where he was a regular presenter for News at Ten. Lewis joined the BBC in 1986 to front the new One O'Clock News.
James Mates – ITV News Europe Editor; Relief newscaster for ITV News at 1:30, ITV News at 6:30 and ITV News at Ten; Main newscaster for ITV News (weekend bulletins) on Sundays.
Trevor McDonald – ITN newscaster, 1973 to 2008. McDonald is notable for being the first black news anchor in the UK, joining ITN as a reporter in 1973 and rising to become a newscaster by the late 1970s (and in the mid-1980s, diplomatic editor for Channel 4 News). McDonald was the main newscaster for News at Ten between 1992 and 1999, and from 2001 until 2005. During this period he also hosted Granada Television's current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald. McDonald retired from newscasting in 2005, but returned to ITN to present the revived News at Ten for eleven months in 2008. He was knighted in 1999.
Michael Nicholson – former ITN senior foreign correspondent and newscaster. He was the original host of the ITN News at 5:45 when it was introduced in 1976.
Mary Nightingale – co-presenter of the ITV News at 6:30 and relief presenter on ITV News at Ten. She joined ITV News in January 2001 and has since presented both the 6:30pm bulletin as well as special ITN programmes on ITV.
Nicholas Owen – joined ITN in 1984 as Channel 4 News business and economics correspondent. From 1994 to April 2000, Owen was ITN's royal correspondent. In 2003, he became the main presenter of the ITV News at 1:30, and left ITN in 2006 for the BBC, where he is currently a relief presenter for the BBC News at Six, as well as a main presenter on the BBC News Channel, and a radio presenter on Classic FM
Leonard Parkin – a reporter and newscaster with ITN from circa 1973 to 1987. Between 1976 and 1987 he was one of the main presenters for ITN's [News at One, and often hosted the News at 5:45 in the early 1980s. He occasionally presented News at Ten, and retired in 1987. He subsequently presented documentaries for Yorkshire Television until his death in 1993.
Gaby Rado – a journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. He joined BBC News as a radio reporter, then ITN in 1985 as a writer for ITV bulletins, before transferring to ITN's Channel 4 News in 1988.
Phil Reay-Smith – general correspondent for ITV News until August 2010. Now Consumer Editor on ITV Breakfast show Daybreak since its launch in September 2010.
Nick Robinson – Political Editor for ITV News between 2002 and 2005.
Tim Rogers – First Wales Correspondent for ITN, joining from the BBC in 1997. Moscow Correspondent from 2001–2002, then North of England Correspondent from 2002 - Jan, 2008. London based until late 2008. Now Head of Training for The Thomson Foundation—a charitable foundation supporting media development and training journalists across the world.
Chris Rogers – presented and reported for ITV News.
Chris Ship – Deputy Political Editor for ITV News and occasional weekend news presenter.
Peter Sissons – Joined ITN in 1964 and Industrial Editor after being wounded covering the Nigerian Civil War Became alternate presenter of the News at One in 1976 and presented the first edition of Channel 4 News in 1982. Left in 1989 to join BBC News.
Jon Snow – Journalist and presenter for ITN, best known for presenting Channel 4 News.
Julia Somerville – joined ITN in 1987 to co-presente the Lunchtime News and also deputise as presenter of ITV News at Ten until it ended in 1999. She remained at ITN until October 2001, presenting the ITV News at 1:30 and was the launch newscaster for the ITN News Channel.
Alastair Stewart – Relief presenter of ITV News at 1:30, co-presenter of ITV News at 6:30 and relief newscaster on ITV News at Ten.
Janet Street-Porter – joined LWT in 1975, working as a reporter on The London Weekend Show from 1975 until 1979.
John Suchet – a newsreader for ITN from 1972 until 2004. He was a reporter from 1972 until 1982, when he became a weekend news presenter. He became the main lunchtime presenter from 1987 to 1992, but became best known for his presenting the ITV News at 6:30 between 1992 and 1999. During these years he was also a relief presenter for News at Ten. He retired from ITN in 2004. He is the brother of the actor David Suchet.
Joan Thirkettle – joined ITN in 1974 as one of their first female reporters. She died in 1996.
Debbie Thrower – presented ITV Meridian's news programme Meridian Tonight (southern edition) from its inception in 1993 to 2009. She was also a BBC newsreader and a presenter on Songs of Praise.
Geraint Vincent – Political correspondent for HTV's Wales Tonight, joined ITN in April 2002 as a news correspondent for ITV News, presented ITV News at 6:30 and ITV News at Ten, Middle East Correspondent for ITV News.
Mark Webster – Former ITN Moscow Correspondent, Business Editor, Political Correspondent and Industrial Correspondent. Joined five news in 2004 (when programme was produced by Sky News).
Romilly Weeks – Employed by ITN to cover events worldwide for ITV News
Richard Whiteley – reporter and presenter for Yorkshire Television's Calendar news bulletin from 1968 to 1995. Whiteley was best known for his 23-year stint as presenter of Countdown. He died in 2005 following a short illness.
Kirsty Young – in 1992, she joined STV to present the main evening news programme, Scotland Today. She moved to join ITV in 1999 and briefly became a co-presenter of the ITV News at 6:30 with Dermot Murnaghan in 2001, as well as the Channel 5 News.
Yao Chin – video journalist reporting on the ITV Morning News between 2009-12. He joined ITN as an Assistant News Editor and Westminster Producer having won a scholarship from ITV News for his post graduate journalism qualification