Pip Tomson
Pip Tomson | |
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 Pip Tomson presenting The Best Secretary on Tyneside Award September 2009 | |
| Born | 30 August 1977 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and presenter |
Philippa (Pip) Tomson (born 30 August 1977) is an English journalist and presenter. She is a news correspondent for Good Morning Britain on ITV Breakfast.
Career
At the age of 18 she trained as a journalist and later became the chief reporter for the Express & Star in Wolverhampton.[1][2]
In March 2002 she joined ITV News Central on ITV Central – newsreading bulletins, co-presenting alongside Bob Warman and reporting in the West Midlands region.[1][3][4] In addition, she worked as a freelancer with Central Extra on ITV Central, ITV News London on ITV London, the ITV News Channel and Westcountry Live on ITV Westcountry.[3]
On 25 September 2006, she became a co-presenter of ITV News Tyne Tees on ITV Tyne Tees.[3] On 2 February 2009 she was redeployed as the weather presenter and a fill-in presenter of ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround for ITV Tyne Tees & Border.[5][6][7]
From August 2008 until July 2011, she was an occasional co-presenter of Tony Horne in the Morning on Metro Radio.[8] In April 2009, she guest co-presented on Real Radio North East alongside former ITV Tyne Tees colleague Jonathan Morrell.
From February 2009 until August 2011, she was a columnist for the Sunday Sun.[9][10] She has worked as a features writer for the Daily Mail.[11]
In November and December 2009, Tomson appeared as a weather presenter for GMTV,[12][13] and on 29 December 2010 for Daybreak on ITV Breakfast.
On 1 May 2012 she joined Sky News as a freelance news presenter and reporter.[14]
In 2013, she returned to Daybreak (now Good Morning Britain) where she is a news correspondent. For a time she was also a reporter for ITV News London.
Awards
- Presenter of the Year, Royal Television Society North East and the Border (2010 and 2012).[2]
Charity interests
Tomson is a member of the Cash for Kids charity.[15] She was also the 2008 vice-president for the Tsunami Fund Raising charity,[16] when she helped to raise money for students at the Ban Kamala School, devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
She is a patron of Someone Cares and in 2009 took part in the Great North Run to raise funds and awareness for the charity.[17] In 2010 she ran the event for Brysons Animal Refuge and Ark on the Edge animal sanctuary,[18] while in 2012 she ran again in aid of Ark on the Edge and also the Children's Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.[19]
References
- ^ a b Philippa Tomson Zoom Info, 26 September 2012
- ^ a b Philippa Tomson Profile Card Mission Sports Management
- ^ a b c Philippa Tomson Official Website
- ^ Philippa Tomson The Birmingham Post, 1 August 2006
- ^ Tyne Tees news presenters axed in cost cuts ChronicleLive, 3 December 2008
- ^ Everyone is interested in the weather Liz Lamb, The Free Library, 16 January 2009
- ^ Full Border TV Lookaround line-up revealed Archived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine News & Star, 17 January 2009
- ^ Stalker hell of TV's Philippa Tomson Pauline Holt, Sunday Sun, 24 August 2008
- ^ Sunday Sun – Columnists – Philippa Tomson Sunday Sun, 2 February 2009
- ^ Farewell Friends Sunday Sun, 28 August 2011
- ^ Philippa Tomson Daily Mail
- ^ Weathergirl Philippa Tomson set to go national Sunday Sun, 1 November 2009
- ^ Travel's forecast Sunday Sun, 1 November 2009
- ^ News – My News Philippa Tomson, 28 April 2012
- ^ Metro Radio – Cash for Kids charity, Metro Radio
- ^ Our History Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir
- ^ Our Patron – Philippa Tomson Someone Cares
- ^ Relieved to finish Great North Run Sunday Sun, 26 September 2010
- ^ Car Torque with ...Sky News presenter Philippa Tomson The Northern Echo, 17 November 2012
External links
- Pip Tomson on X
- Living people
- People from York
- English television journalists
- English television presenters
- English television producers
- English radio personalities
- ITV regional newsreaders and journalists
- ITN newsreaders and journalists
- ITV Weather
- Sky newsreaders and journalists
- 1977 births
- British women television journalists