Sam Naz

Samreen "Sam" Naz is a British television presenter, journalist and actress, currently working as a news anchor for Sky News in London. She has previously hosted several news programmes including 60 Seconds.

Sam Naz
BornSamreen Naz
Birmingham, England
EducationLeeds University
OccupationJournalist, news presenter
Works60 Seconds
BBC News Summary
Sky World News

Early life and education

Naz was born and brought up in Birmingham and is of Pakistani descent.[1] She attended the University of Leeds before completing a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Leeds Trinity University. In 2002, she received a bursary from the George Viner Memorial Fund, an initiative by the National Union of Journalists to broaden the diversity of journalists in the media.[2]

Career

In 2011 she became the main presenter of BBC Three's 60 Seconds, anchoring the bulletins from Mondays to Thursdays.[3] She also co-hosted BBC Three's live political discussion programme Free Speech. Naz joined the line-up at Sky News in 2016 and regularly presents the overnight shift on the channel from midnight til 6am. She hosted a special Media Summits event about Brexit in 2017, which featured Ed Vaizey.[4]

Sam Naz has been a regular anchor of the overnight and early morning coverage on Sky News since 2016, typically being on air from midnight til 6am presenting Sky Midnight News and Sky World News. As of 2021, Sam Naz has been one of most frequent presenters of this slot.[5]

Naz wrote, produced and starred in a short film called Liberté, in which she played the lead role of Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim secret agent working for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The film premiered in Los Angeles in September 2021.[6][1]

Credits

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2011–201660 SecondsPresenterBBC Three [3]
2012Free SpeechSocial Media JockeyBBC Three[7]
2013–20168:00 pm News SummaryPresenterBBC One
Since 2016Sky NewsNews AnchorSky
2016–2018Channel 5 NewsNews Anchor/ReporterITN Productions
2016Berlin StationBBC Commentator (acting role)Paramount[8]
2018Euronews TonightHostNBC

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2021LibertéNoor Inayat Khan[9]Actor, writer, producer

References
  1. "Little-known British Muslim WWII spy story comes to film". The Washington Times.
  2. "George Viner Memorial Fund scholars". nuj.org.uk. National Union of Journalists. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  3. "New presenters announced for BBC Three's 60seconds news bulletin". BBC. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. Bevir, George (24 November 2017). "Brexit is a 'massive risk' to the UK's creative industries". IBC. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  5. "Sam Naz". IMDb.
  6. "Sky News host Sam Naz tells an epic spy story". 15 September 2021.
  7. "Free speech: body beautiful special". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  8. "Sam Naz on IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  9. "Liberté". IMDb.
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