Julie Etchingham

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Etchingham on location for ITV News in June 2007.
Etchingham on location for ITV News in June 2007.

Julie Etchingham (born 1969 in Leicester, England) is an English television newsreader and journalist. Formerly with Sky News, she is now part of the presenting team with the relaunched News at Ten.

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[edit] Early life and career

The daughter of teachers, she was born and grew up in Leicester, and got her first job in journalism with BBC Radio Leicester while still at school. [1][2]

While reading English at Newnham College, Cambridge, she co-presented BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's student programme On the Edge, produced by Ian Peacock. She joined the BBC as a graduate trainee, and trained as a journalist. Working at BBC Midlands, she became a presenter on Midlands Today, but soon moved on to present national programmes after moving to London. Her credits at the BBC include BBC's Breakfast News, Newsround (where she beat 1,000 other competitors to the job) and the corporation's long running Holiday programme.

Etchingham joined Sky News in 2002, where she hosted a number of shows for the channel, including Sky News Today. She was also an occasional presenter on Five News after Sky took over as news provider for Five in January 2005.

On 29 October 2007 during a speech by David Cameron, Etchingham's microphone was left open and an aside was accidentally broadcast during live coverage of the Conservative leader's address. Speaking on the issue of immigration, Mr Cameron said: "Let me outline the action that a Conservative government would take. As we have seen, some of the increase in population size results from natural change - birth rates, death rates. Here our policy should be obvious... " At this point, Etchingham was clearly heard to say: "Extermination."[3] Sky News said afterwards that her comment was "regrettable".[4]

On October 31, 2007 ITV confirmed that in January 2008, Etchingham would move to present the relaunched ITV News at Ten with Sir Trevor McDonald.[5] The programme returned on 14 January.

[edit] Personal life

She is married to the television producer Nick Gardner, who she met while she was working on Newsround and with whom she has two children. They live in London.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Revealed: Television journalist Julie Etchingham's secret battle with sleep (2007-11-21). Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  2. ^ Fraught rehearsals and last-minute terror: Julie Etchingham's inside story of the return of News At Ten (2008-01-13). Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  3. ^ "Sky apologies over Tory 'extermination' quip", Daily Telegraph, October 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-23. 
  4. ^ "Sky apologies over Tory 'extermination' quip", Daily Telegraph, October 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-23. 
  5. ^ "News at Ten returns to ITV", itv.com, 31 October 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 

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