News Broadcaster and Journalist

Andrea Catherwood is an award winning news broadcaster and journalist, with over 25 years’ experience as national TV and radio presenter and has reported from around the world.. She was the first British journalist into Mazar-i-Shariff in Afghanistan after the city fell to the Northern Alliance and was among the first British television journalists to visit Guantanamo Bay.
As a main news anchor for Bloomberg Television, Andrea presented a weekday business program, Last Word with Andrea Catherwood, which focused on breaking news and the effect on the business market. Prior to this Andrea was a newscaster for ITV1 for nine years, anchoring programmes from both Washington and Iraq, and presented ITV1’s flagship political programme The Sunday Edition.
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Andrea now lives in London and can regularly be heard on BBC Radio 4, presenting across a broad range of programmes including The Media Show, Last Word, You &amp; Yours, Women’s Hour, and Saturday Live with Rev. Richard Coles.