Ayshah Tull | |
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Born | London, England |
Alma mater | King's College London City, University of London |
Years active | 2010–present |
Title | Presenter, journalist |
Ayshah Tull is a British presenter and journalist at Channel 4 News. Formerly, she was at the BBC working mainly for the children's news programme, Newsround. Tull has also presented for BBC Sport along with having her reports appear on BBC Breakfast, World TV, and the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Career
In 2010, she was one of 4000 applicants for 12 places on a BBC Production Trainee Scheme. After working as a producer on BBC Radio 5 Live (including BBC's coverage of the Olympics) and Sky News, she had a successful screentest as a presenter in 2013
Background
Tull is from Perivale, West London. Her mother is Guyanese. Tull attended the Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls in Acton and took a degree in geography at King's College London London followed by a postgraduate certificate in broadcast journalism at City, University of London.
Tull was an NUJ- administered recipient of an ethnic journalism George Viner Memorial Fund grant in 2009 She was shortlisted for a Diversity in Media Award in the Journalist or Writer of the Year category in 2018. In 2019, Tull was named an ambassador for the charity Mencap, which supports people with learning disabilities.
References
- "Team" Channel 4 News. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
- ^ Holliday, Grace (24 May 2017). "Ayshah Tull: Guardian visit made me realise I wanted to do journalism". The Guardian.
- "All about Ayshah". BBC Newsround. 15 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- Ayshah Tull (5 December 2023). "First time reporting on my mothers home country Guyana". Retrieved 25 November 2024 – via Threads.
- "Perivale reporter makes it to BBC Newsround" Get West London. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- "Ethnic minority journalism students receive grants" Society of Editors. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- "2018 Award Shortlist & Categories" Diversity In Media Awards. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- "Our Ambassadors" Mencap. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
External links
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- Living people
- BBC television presenters
- Alumni of City, University of London
- Alumni of King's College London
- Black British journalists
- BBC radio producers
- English people of Guyanese descent
- People from Perivale
- 21st-century British journalists
- British women journalists
- Journalists from London
- British women radio producers