Jo Coburn

Jo Coburn (born November 1968) is a British journalist and political correspondent for BBC News, previously with special responsibility for BBC Breakfast. She has also previously worked as BBC political correspondent for London, most notably during the 2000 London Mayoral election. She is currently an occasional relief presenter on the BBC News Channel and a regular presenter of Daily Politics alongside Andrew Neil. She has presented on BBC Radio Four in the past. and can sometimes be heard on the weekend current affairs programme The World This Weekend. Jo started her career by accident, in community radio. She has worked for a number of local radio stations in the Thames Valley, including Mix 96 Aylesbury, Fox FM Oxford, and Star FM in Slough.

She is a fluent speaker of German.