Daljit Dhaliwal
| Daljit Dhaliwal | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 8, 1962 London, England |
| Education | Bachelors with Honours, postgraduate degree and honorary doctorate |
| Alma mater | University of East London |
| Occupation | Television journalist/presenter |
| Agent | HDReps |
| Notable credit(s) |
Worldfocus Foreign Exchange |
| Website | hdreps |
Daljit Dhaliwal (born September 8, 1962) is a British newsreader and television presenter.
Dhaliwal is a former news presenter for the Al-Jazeera English news service that broadcast from Washington DC. Previously, she was the anchor chair of Worldfocus on PBS, which aired its last broadcast on 2 April 2010. She has been best known for presenting the critically acclaimed program Foreign Exchange also on PBS and the United Nations Television produced 21st Century documentary seen on CUNY cable television. Dhaliwal also does news segments for ABC News Now. From January 2008 to October 2009, she was sole anchor of Foreign Exchange. She later did one episode of Global Watch in April 2008. She had been previously working on and off as a newsreader for BBC World News since November 2005, mostly as substitute for Katty Kay.
Dhaliwal was born in London, England, grew up in Southall, London.
She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of East London, an MA degree in politics, history and economics from the University of London, and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London.
Dhaliwal started her career as a field reporter for BBC Home TV News, then became anchor at ITN World News.
When ITN started the ITN World News she regularly presented the evening bulletins until the end of 2001. She presented with Andrew Harvey with each alternating each hour throughout the evening. Later in 2001, Dhaliwal's ITN World News broadcast was cancelled due to lack of corporate funding, (PBS switched from ITN World News to BBC World News which has late breaking live broadcast). She also was co-host of the inaugural season of PBS's Wide Angle in 2002. She returned as sole anchor in 2006, then left.
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