Joanna Gosling

Joanna Gosling
Gosling at Heathrow Airport in April 2010.
Born	Joanna Marie Mussett Gosling (1971-01-05) 5 January 1971 (age 46)
Education	Aylesbury High School University of Birmingham University of Grenoble
Occupation	news presenter, broadcast journalist
Notable credit(s)	Central News Sky News BBC Breakfast BBC News Channel BBC Weekend News
Spouse(s)	Craig Oliver (1996–2014)(separated)
Children	3

Joanna Marie Mussett Gosling, Lady Oliver (born 5 January 1971) is a television news presenter, broadcast journalist and author. She presents on the United Kingdom rolling news channel BBC News, and occasionally the first half of the 11 o'clock news hour on BBC2 as well as covering the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Fridays. Having previously worked for Independent Local Radio, Central Television in the Midlands and Sky News she has been with the BBC since 1999.

Gosling is a graduate of the University of Birmingham from which she obtained a degree in French, and the University of Grenoble. She was married to Sir Craig Oliver, who was British Prime Minister David Cameron's Head of Communications; the couple separated in 2014. Her first book, Simply Wonderwoman – a guide for busy working women with children – was published in 2011.

The oldest of three siblings, Gosling grew up in Buckinghamshire, where she was educated at Aylesbury High School in Aylesbury. She was academic and had a flair for languages, and went on from school to study at the University of Birmingham, from where she has a degree in French. After graduating she decided on a career in broadcast journalism. She attended the University of Grenoble in France, and had originally wanted to be a war correspondent.

She began her broadcasting career as a trainee reporter, completing a series of work placements at Birmingham's BBC WM, Fox FM in Oxfordshire and BBC Radio Scotland in Edinburgh, before securing her first full-time position with Independent Radio News where she read the news for Chris Moyles on Capital Radio. She worked as a freelance reporter for Central Television and later Sky News, and has been with the BBC since August 1999. As a presenter on BBC News 24 Gosling initially worked on the overnight slot when the channel was simulcast with BBC One and BBC World, before moving to the 9:00 am–1:00 pm morning shift with Ben Geoghegan, and then Phillip Hayton. Along with Hayton she was part of the team which anchored coverage of the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2002. In December 2003, she moved to a weekend evening slot on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays with Chris Lowe. She had taken over from Anna Jones who moved to her old weekday slot alongside Hayton. During summer 2006, she also appeared as an occasional presenter on BBC Breakfast.