Karin Giannone

Karin Thandi Giannone ( ; born January 1974) is a South African-born British news presenter working in the United Kingdom. She is a London-based main presenter on the BBC News channel.

Career Giannone edited the student magazine Varsity magazine at Cambridge, which led to work experience at Anglia Television, and on graduation in 1997 she joined the regional ITV station in Norwich as a news trainee, producing, reporting and presenting for regional news bulletins. In 1999, her language and broadcasting skills helped her land a role as a reporter and presenter for Channel 4's Football Italia series, where she covered the Italian soccer scene for a season, flying between the UK and Italy every week. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. In 2024, she was reappointed to the same slots 0700–0900 GMT Tuesday–Thursday and 1800–2300 GMT on alternate weekends, and as a relief presenter to the successor to World News Today, The World Today.

In March 2026, she presented her first weekday BBC News at One from Salford.

Personal life

Giannone married Neil Rowbottom, a former head of virtual design at Anglia Television, on 13 April 2002 in Norwich. The couple live in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.