David Foster (journalist)

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David Foster is a British news anchor working for Al Jazeera English. He has had many years of experience as a journalist, covering stories in more than 50 countries. In the last year he has been in Finland, India, Mauritania, Western Sahara and Afghanistan preparing reports for Al Jazeera English launch.

He came to Al Jazeera English from Sky News, the UK-based satellite news channel, where for almost ten years he was a studio news presenter and business correspondent. In the 1980s (as senior correspondent for Britain’s first commercial TV breakfast news show – TV-am’s Good Morning Britain), he was in Beirut to report on the Lebanese civil war and was in Libya in 1986 when American warplanes bombed Tripoli.

He moved to the US in 1988 to begin a 5 year stint as US correspondent, based in Washington DC, for TV-am, before returning to the UK, where he became anchor for Westcountry Live before moving to Sky News