Sangita Myska is a British television presenter and journalist, currently with the BBC. She is a regular news correspondent across all of BBC News output, as well as presenting regular relief shifts on the rolling news channel BBC News. Myska was nominated for the European Journalist of the Year award in 2007[1] and long-listed for the Amnesty International Journalism Awards that same year.
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After graduating with a degree in Law and International Politics, Myska worked for a couple of months on an industrial health and safety magazine. She said of the experience: "The Editor was bonkers and I was paid less than it cost me to get to work. That said, I learnt that persistence pays off and, essentially, that pig swill can be dangerous!"[2]
She went on to freelance as a researcher for various national broadcasters and magazine feature writers.
Myska's career at BBC News began when she won a place on the BBC's Trainee Reporter Scheme. She Served her last stint at BBC Radio Sheffield whom she resultantly joined as a reporter, and then producer for the drive time show with Dean 'Pips' Pepall.[3] In 1998, she joined BBC Radio Five Live as a producer and reporter, before moving to BBC Scotland again as a correspondent, but this time working in television.
In 2001, Myska won the BBC's Talent competition, which led work as a presenter on BBC1's Holiday and Summer Holiday travel shows. In 2002, she rejoined BBC News, as a national television news correspondent, working on the national news bulletins on BBC One. That year, she became the first Asian woman to front a six part undercover investigation into car crime and consumer fraud, for BBC2. In February 2003, she was invited to anchor for BBC Three's The 7 O'Clock News from its launch,[4] before returning to the BBC's main bulletins as a correspondent in March 2004. She was due to join Five News as part of a new team of reporters and presenters for its relaunch in January 2005,[5] however this move never materialised, with no explanation given to the public. Instead she chose to remain at the BBC as a News Correspondent for the national news bulletins and the BBC News Channel.
Myska has also worked as a current affairs presenter and reporter on The Daily Politics with Andrew Neil on BBC Two; on Real Story with Fiona Bruce for BBC One; presented Outrageous Fortunes – Guinness for BBC One and BBC Three; and BBC Two's Current Affairs series Lifting the Bonnet.
Sangita is married, and lives in London. In September 2009, it was revealed that she was mugged the previous year by Daniel Mykoo and his brother Matthew, dubbed the London 'strangler-robbers.'[6][7]