Maryam Moshiri is a regular presenter of the afternoon and evening business news on BBC News, the corporation's rolling 24 hour news channel.

Broadcasting career

Maryam started her career as a business reporter for Independent Radio News

Independent Radio News

Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the UK and beyond.The managing director of IRN is Tim Molloy, who succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009...

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Maryam is also a weekend presenter on BBC World News.
Maryam has occasionally presented the BBC1 8pm News Summary and, as main presenter, on the BBC News Channel (in December 2006 and August 2008).

Personal life

Maryam's sister, Nazanine Moshiri, is a London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

-based presenter and correspondent with Al Jazeera English having previously been a newsreader and reporter on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's London Tonight

London Tonight

London Tonight is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London . Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of interest.Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses...

and the ITV Morning News

ITV Morning News

The ITV News at 5:30 is the early morning news bulletin on the British television network ITV1. It is produced by ITN.The 30-minute programme covers British national and international news stories, a brief business update, a look at the mornings newspapers and regular NBC News segments and...

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Both Maryam and Nazanine were born in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

, and came to London with their parents before the Iranian Revolution

Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...

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Mayram graduated from University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

 in 2000 with a BA in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

. She is a keen tennis player with her backhand having been compared favourably to that of rising British talent Anna Smith

Anna Smith (tennis)

Anna Smith is a professional tennis player who represents the United Kingdom. She has won three International Tennis Federation singles titles, 12 ITF doubles titles and reached a career high singles ranking of world no. 262 on 9 August 2010. Smith is currently the British number 9 with a ranking...

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