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Reshmin Chowdhury

Reshmin Chowdhury
Native name রেশমিন চৌধুরী
Born (1977-12-16) 16 December 1977 (age 39)
London, England
Residence London, England
Nationality British
Education BSc Politics with Economics, NCTJ Newspaper Journalism
Alma mater Harlow College
University of Bath
Occupation Sports journalist, broadcaster, singer
Years active 1998–present
Children 2

Reshmin Chowdhury (Bengali: রেশমিন চৌধুরী; born 16 December 1977) is an English sports journalist and broadcaster who works for the BBC and BT Sport.

Chowdhury was born and brought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin.

Chowdhury attended Woodford County High School for Girls. In 2000, she graduated with a 2.1 BSc (Hons) in Politics with Economics from the University of Bath. In 2003, she studied for an NCTJ Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at Harlow College.

Whilst studying for her degree, Chowdhury spent her placement year as a television news helpdesk operator at Reuters TV News. She joined Princess Productions after graduating and was part of the original team that travelled to Borneo for the ITV1 programme Survivor, before working as UK Editor for the global online events guide whatsonwhen.com. In late 2003, she was offered a job travelling around the world producing specialist business reports for international print media, interviewing heads of states, politicians and business figures. Her work took her as far afield as Madagascar, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Maldives and Nigeria.

In 2005, Chowdhury moved to television news and joined ITN as a news assistant and then producer, before moving to BBC London, BBC News and Bloomberg Television.


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