Mishal Husain, one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, will be leaving the corporation in the new year.
The 51-year-old journalist, also a host of The Today Debate and who fronted several 2024 general election debates for the BBC this year, joined the broadcaster more than 25 years ago.
Husain is moving to front a new interview series at financial and data media company Bloomberg, as editor-at-large of Bloomberg Weekend Edition.
“I will always be grateful for the opportunities the BBC gave me, and wish the organisation and everyone who is part of it the very best.”
Husain first joined the BBC as a producer in 1998, before becoming a presenter on BBC World News in 2001.
She has delivered news reports on BBC News At Ten and BBC News At Six as well as being the BBC journalist to interview the Duke and Duchess of Sussex following their engagement in 2017.
“I very much hope the BBC and Mishal will get the chance to work together again one day.”
Earlier this year, Martha Kearney signed off her final Today programme after six years, as Woman’s Hour host Emma Barnett joined the show.
Since 2013, Husain has been a presenter of the Today Programme.
Husain said: “I am delighted to be fronting a new interview show that will reach audiences in different formats as part of the exciting plans for Bloomberg Weekend Edition.
“Ours is an ever more complex world but the desire for thoughtful conversations crosses all borders. I look forward to working with a new team at Bloomberg – the place which gave me my first job in journalism.”
The latest BBC annual report revealed Husain earned between £340,000 and £344,999 during the 2023/24 financial year.
Husain, who has also done stints on BBC News interview show HARDtalk, as well as the corporation’s former Sunday politics programme The Andrew Marr Show, won the best individual contributor to radio at the Voice Of The Listener And Viewer (VLV) ceremony in 2018.
Husain has also been hailed as the “interviewer politicians dread” by The Guardian after she challenged the Home Secretary James Cleverly over his reported use of a swear word, earlier this year.
Editor of Today, Owenna Griffiths, said: “Mishal is not only a formidable journalist and first-rate presenter, she is an extremely generous and thoughtful colleague.
“It has been my great privilege to work alongside her and, along with the Today team, I’ll miss her enormously but wish her all the very best in her new venture.”
