Daljit Dhaliwal

Daljit Dhaliwal

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  • Name:
  • Daljit Dhaliwal
  • Born:
  • September 8, 1962

Daljit Dhaliwal Biography

Daljit Dhaliwal (born 8 September 1962) is a British newsreader and television presenter. Dhaliwal is a former news presenter for the Al-Jazeera English news service that broadcast from Washington DC. Previously, she was the anchor chair of Worldfocus on PBS, which aired its last broadcast on 2 April 2010.

Her program Foreign Exchange on PBS and the documentary 21st Century produced in the United Nations Television could be seen on the CUNY cable television. She is also seen the news area of ABC News.

 

She was born in 1962 in London in England and brought up in the Southall region of West London. She belongs to the Punjabi Sikh family emigrated from Sujapur in Ludhiana in Punjab. She studied at the University of East London and earned her bachelor’s degree and got MA degree in politics, history and economics from the University of London. She also got her honorary doctorate degree from the University of East London. She married Lee Patrick Sullivan and divorced after two years. She is at present living in New York City.

 

She started her career as a news reporter of BBC Home TV and then became an anchor at ITN World News. She presented the evening bulletins until 2001 in the ITN World News. She presented this with Andrew Harvey one hour each throughout the evening. In 2001, ITN World News broadcast was cancelled. PBS switched from ITN World News to BBC World News. She co-hosted the inaugural season of the Wide Angel of PBS in 2002. She remained as a sole anchor until 2006.

 

She was also presenting BBC Home News and Channel 4 News. Then she left BBC home and started to host ITN World News and ITN World Focus, the summary of news on weekends. She left London and worked in Atlanta at Georgia to work in CNN International and CNNfn.

 

She worked as a substitute for Katty Kay in BBC World in November 2005. Then she hosted Your World Today and also hosted the conferences of United Nations held at various places. She hosted Foreign Exchange and Global Watch. She was named by the People Magazine in May 1999 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World and in August 1999 she was places in the Women We Love list by the Esquire Magazine. 


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Updated: September 24, 2017

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