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George Alagiah Biography

George Maxwell Alagiah OBE is a British newsreader, journalist, and news presenter who began his career as a reporter and correspondent for the BBC in 1989.

He began his career as a newsreader for BBC News at Six (1984) in 2003, and went on to become a well-known face of BBC news, hosting shows such as BBC News at Ten (2000) and BBC One O’Clock News (1986), among others.

Alagiah earned a degree in political science from Durham University. He covered everything from the Rwandan genocide to the hardship of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq to the civil wars in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Somalia as one of the BBC’s top international correspondents.

Alagiah has been the host of BBC Four News since its inception in 2002; the show has since been renamed The World and then another edition of World News Today.

He joined the BBC Six O’Clock News in January 2003, co-presenting it with Sophie Raworth until October 2005, and then wit