Lisa Aziz
| Lisa Aziz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lisa Shirley Aziz 19 June 1962 Totnes, Devon, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | BA (Hons) in History of Art and Religious Studies |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Notable credit(s) | TV-am, Sky News, ITV News |
Lisa Shirley Aziz (born 19 June 1962) is an English news presenter. She is best known as the presenter of the Morning News on LBC. Before this she worked for ITV Westcountry as a co-presenter for the evening news programme: The West Country Tonight. She later resigned from this post. She also presented the news on TV-am and Sky News, and was one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television. In 2004, she was the recipient of an EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy) award for Best Television News Journalist.
Aziz was born in Totnes, Devon to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in History of Art and Religious Studies from the University of London, after which she joined Radio City, in Liverpool, as a presenter. In 1983, she moved to Bristol where she worked as a television reporter and presenter for the BBC and HTV West.
In 1988, Aziz joined TV-am as a reporter before presenting news bulletins for the station the following year. She was one of the first half-Asian presenters to be seen on mainstream television, and the first Muslim news presenter. She joined Sky News in 1992, but continued to present bulletins for TV-am, and later went on to become one of the main news presenters at Sky News. In 2004, she won the EMMA Best Television News Journalist Award. She returned to the West Country in 2005, and has since been one of the main presenters of the ITV West main news programme The West Tonight. From 16 February 2009, she became co-presenter of the pan-regional news programme The West Country Tonight, which replaced The West Tonight (ITV West) and Westcountry Live (ITV Westcountry) alongside Steve Scott.
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