Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah is a British television presenter and journalist. Half Indian and half Mauritian, Naga was born in London, England on February 25th, 1975, and has worked for the BBC since 2008.
⬆️Image source: BBC, Breakfast Presenters' Profiles
Munchetty was educated at Graveney School and later on at the University of Leeds, where she studied English. The first jobs she had were in Evening Standard and The Observer as a journalist.
Her career with BBC began in October 2008 when she joined the news programme, Working Lunch. Since then she has hosted Radio 4's Money Box and narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith in Paris which examined anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and their impact on the Jewish community in France. She later won BBC's Celebrity Mastermind in 2013, and also presented an episode of Newsnight on BBC Two.
She is a regular presenter on BBC One's Breakfast and has been presenting early morning bulletins on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News since 2010.
In September 2019, Naga was found to have violated BBC guidelines by criticizing the President of the USA, Donald Trump, under the perception of racism. She took issue with Trump's comments telling his opponents to "go back" to the "places from which they came". Her response was “Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism”.
She was a contestant on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing and was voted out in week four in 2016. She plays golf, with a handicap of nine in 2015, winning a Cup at Bishop's Stortford.
BBC provides ten national TV channels, regional TV programmes, internet services, national radio stations, broadcasting to the world in 40 languages.
Getting featured on television channels and stations can help you boost your profile and visibility, build credibility and position yourself as an industry expert. There are plenty of ways to get featured in the media. We have stated some of them that can help professionals in the health and tech industry.
Would you like to learn how to create content to share on your social media as well as with journalists so you become more visible, more credible and more influential?
Sign up for 30 days for free!
About the Author
Peter is a Spanish Marketing Intern at Profile High Club. He studies a BA in Business Management with Marketing at London South Bank University. He is passionate about travelling, and loves learning and discovering new things. Peter, having grown up in Spain, can speak 2 languages fluently, and hopes to improve his French very soon.
Find Peter on LinkedIn.
Comments