Mishal Husain Biography
Mishal Husain is a BBC television and radio news anchor in the United Kingdom. She is the main presenter of BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News on Sundays, as well as one of the main presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today. She has appeared as a guest on The Andrew Marr Show, HARDtalk, Impact, and BBC Breakfast. Husain also works as a fill-in presenter for BBC News at Six.
How old is Mishal Husain? – Age
She is 48 years old as of 11 February 2021. She was born in 1973 in Northampton, United Kingdom.
Mishal Husain Family
Husain was born to Pakistani parents in Pakistan. Her father was a urologist and her mother was a teacher and former Pakistan Television Corporation producer. She is the granddaughter of Pakistan Army’s first Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence, Syed Shahid Hamid.
Mishal Husain Husband
In July 2003, Husain married Meekal Hashmi. The couple lives in Camden, north London, with their three sons.
Mishal Husain Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1Million.
Mishal Husain Salary
She is said to be earning a salary of between £265,000-£265,999.
Mishal Husain Career
Husain began her career in journalism when she was 18 years old when she worked for three months as a city reporter for the English-language newspaper The News in Islamabad, Pakistan. Then, as part of her university work experience, she did several stints at the BBC. Her first job was as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg Television in London, where she worked from 1996 to 2000. She joined the BBC as a junior producer in the newsroom and for the News 24 channel two years later, in 1998, and then in the Economics and Business Unit.
She moved in front of the camera within a few months and has since worked in a variety of roles, including the daily Breakfast programme, Asia Business Report, and as a business news presenter on both BBC World News and BBC News Channel. She was the corporation’s Washington correspondent from September 2002 to September 2004, serving as the main news anchor during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq and during the war. Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Paul Kagame, and Emmerson Mnangagwa are among the high-profile figures she has interviewed.
She published an autobiographical essay in The Independent on May 8, 2010, based on a nostalgia trip to the United Arab Emirates. Husain hosted Impact on BBC World News in 2011, but during the spring and summer of that year, she was working on a documentary about the Arab Spring, which she planned to air in the autumn of that year. She is the host of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One on Sunday evenings. Husain was announced as a member of the BBC’s Olympic Presenting team on December 2, 2011.
She hosted the final News at Ten broadcasts from BBC Television Centre on March 17, 2013. Husain was announced as a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in the autumn by BBC Director-General Lord Hall on July 16, 2013. Husain conducted an interview with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2013. “Kyi lost her cool following a tense interview during the intense cross-examination.” “No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim,” Suu Kyi was said to have said. She recorded an interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on November 27, 2017.
She is still the main presenter of BBC News at Ten on BBC One on Sunday evenings, as well as BBC World News and BBC News Channel on occasion. Husain made her first appearance on Today on October 7, 2013, with John Humphrys as her co-host. Husain was announced as a member of the BBC’s Commonwealth Games Presenting team on November 7, 2013. Husain is also a BBC News at Six relief presenter and the main Sunday presenter of BBC News at Ten. She has appeared on BBC Two’s Newsnight on a few occasions. In 2015, Husain was named Broadcaster of the Year at the London Press Club Awards.