Jo Coburn
| Jo Coburn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Joanne Coburn 12 November 1968 |
| Education | North London Collegiate School for Girls |
| Alma mater |
University of Manchester University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter, Political correspondent |
| Notable credit(s) |
BBC London BBC Breakfast BBC News Channel The World This Weekend Daily Politics |
| Children | 2 |
Joanne "Jo" Coburn (born 12 November 1968) is a British journalist and political correspondent for BBC News, previously with special responsibility for BBC Breakfast. She is a former BBC political correspondent for London, who covered the 2000 London Mayoral election.
She is an occasional relief presenter on the BBC News Channel and a regular presenter of Daily Politics alongside Andrew Neil and relief presenter on Sunday Politics. She has presented on BBC Radio 4 in the past and can sometimes be heard on the weekend current affairs programme The World This Weekend.
Coburn was educated at the North London Collegiate School, an independent school for girls in northwest London, followed by the University of Manchester, where she studied History and German, and the University of Oxford, where she studied Middle Eastern politics.
Coburn worked for local radio stations in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, which included Mix 96 Aylesbury, Fox FM Oxford and Star FM in Slough.
After working as a regional correspondent for BBC London for four years, Coburn joined BBC Breakfast in 2001 as a political correspondent. She had first come to prominence when she covered events surrounding the 2000 London Mayoral election, and she went on to cover the 2001 general election. During her time at BBC Breakfast she covered events surrounding the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq war, and returned from maternity leave in 2005 to report on that year's general election.
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