Reshmin Chowdhury

Reshmin Chowdhury
Native name রেশমিন চৌধুরী
Born London, England
Residence London, England
Nationality British
Ethnicity Bengali
Education BSc Politics with Economics, NCTJ Newspaper Journalism
Alma mater Harlow College
University of Bath
Occupation Sports journalist, broadcaster, singer
Years active 1998–present
Religion Islam
Children 2

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

Early life

Chowdhury was born and bought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin.[1][2]

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.

Broadcasting career

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.[1][2]

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.[1][2]

From September 2008, she spent two seasons as a presenter and reporter with Real Madrid TV.[1] She was the first journalist to interview Cristiano Ronaldo following his world-record signing for Real Madrid. She also secured the world exclusive with Karim Benzema who she interviewed in French. Her work included match day reporting, post-match interviews, travelling with the team, news presenting, as well as producing and presenting shows such as RealMadrid Life and Top Goals.[2][3]

In May 2010, Chowdhury left Madrid and joined the BBC Sport News team. She broadcasts as a sports presenter for the BBC News Channel in the UK and BBC World,[4] the latter for whom she worked for throughout the London 2012 Olympics.[1][2]

In August 2014, Chowdhury joined the BT Sport team as presenter of their nightly news round-up show SportsHUB. [5] From September 2015, Chowdhury became a reporter on BT Sport's exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.

In August 2015, Chowdhury was on the judging panel for The Independent's 50 most influential women in sport.[5]

Singing career

Chowdhury is also a vocalist. She has worked alongside musician Nitin Sawhney. She performed in the UK touring theatre production of The Mahabharata and recorded vocals on the 2006 film The Namesake.[1][2]

Awards and nominations

In September 2015, Chowdhury was named as an ambassador of the British Asian Trust. In November 2015, Chowdhury won the Media Award at the Asian Football Awards.[6][7][8]

Personal life

Chowdhury lives in London with her husband and two children and is a Tottenham Hotspur Football Club fan. She is fluent in English and Bengali and also speaks Spanish and French.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Reshmin Chowdhury". Activate Management. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "BBC and BT Sport Presenter Reshmin Chowdhury". Asian Voice. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Reshmin Chowdhury - Real Madrid". franktogan. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Sports Presenters – BBC News Presenter". BBC News Channel. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014. Reshmin Chowdhury
  5. 1 2 "The 50 most influential women in sport: The job of navigating the nominations goes to...". The Independent. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Asian Image . 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Ganatra, Rupen (20 November 2015). "The Asian Football Awards 2015 Winners". DESIblitz. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Bradford: Telegraph & Argus. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

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