List of ITV Journalists and Newsreaders - B

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• Zeinab Badawi - first presenter of the ITV Morning News and co-presented Channel 4 News for several years, before joining BBC News
• Llewella Bailey
• Faye Barker
• Carol Barnes – worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004 as both reporter and newscaster.
• Gaynor Barnes
• Felicity Barr
• Martin Bashir – left the BBC until 1999 to join ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight.
• Seán Batty
• Andrea Benfield
• Sangeeta Bhabra
• Reginald Bosanquet – best known for presenting ITN bulletins in the 1970s. He joined ITN at its start in 1955 as a sub-editor. He later reported from many parts of the world and was the diplomatic correspondent for four years. He also held the 'head anchor' title at ITN between 1974 and 1976, in the absence of Alastair Burnet.
• Tom Bradby – ITV News' political editor since July 2005. He joined ITN as an editorial trainee in 1990 and subsequently became producer for Michael Brunson, ITN's political editor, in 1992. He spent three years (1993–96) as Ireland correspondent. From 1999 to 2001, he was ITN's Asia correspondent. Following this, he became Royal correspondent for ITV News, and subsequently became UK editor before taking up the post of political editor.
• Colin Brazier
• Fern Britton
• Michael Brunson – served as Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor of ITN. He is best known for serving as the political editor between 1986 to 2000 and as an occasional ITN newscaster.
• Lynda Bryans
• Sir Alastair Burnet - main presenter of News at Ten and ITN election programmes from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1991. Burnet held the 'head anchor' title at ITN from 1967 - the year News at Ten was launched - until 1991, except between 1974 and 1976, when he left to become a newspaper editor. He was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in early 1984.