Kamahl Santamaria

Kamahl Santamaria is a foundation news anchor and journalist at Al Jazeera English, based in Doha.

He presents news bulletins, as well as the weekly business and economics programme "Counting the Cost".

Personal life

Kamahl was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. His family was originally from India, from the region of Goa, where many of the surnames reflect a long-standing Portuguese influence.

Career

TV3

He began his journalistic career in 1998 as a news and sports reporter for TV3 in New Zealand.

One early break occurred in 2001, when he was covering the Atlantic Rowing Race. He was on his way to Barbados - where the event was due to finish - when he was grounded at New York's JKF Airport, following the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens. In the event, this made him the only reporter from New Zealand or Australia to be able to cover the disaster on the ground. The crash came only two months after the 9/11 attacks on New York and was therefore, initially, the subject of heightened speculation.

Sky News

After three years working on TV3's flagship nightly news show "3 News", Kamahl moved to Australia where he established and ran Sky News Australia's Melbourne bureau. He was a reporter, presenter and producer on the nightly Sky Business Report with David Koch.^[1]

Al Jazeera

In 2004, Kamahl moved to New York and London and in 2005 was recruited by Al Jazeera English to become a news presenter, in Doha in Qatar.

He hosts the station's flagship programme Newshour and the channel's business and economics programme Counting the Cost. He has also hosted the programme Inside Story.

Recently, he has been known to leave the studio, to report on business stories from around the world.

References

↑ "Design Debate Doha". Mousharaka. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

External links

Al Jazeera English personalities

Anchors	Dareen Abughaida Felicity Barr Jane Dutton Martine Dennis Ghida Fakhry Adrian Finighan Shiulie Ghosh Divya Gopalan Fauziah Ibrahim Darren Jordon Julie MacDonald Rob Matheson Maryam Nemazee Veronica Pedrosa Richelle Carey Shihab Rattansi Kamahl Santamaria Shakuntala Santhiran Barbara Serra Lukwesa Burak Lauren Taylor Folly Bah Thibault

Hosts	Malika Bilal Marwan Bishara Richard Gizbert Mehdi Hasan Femi Oke Josh Rushing Sebastian Walker

Meteorologists	Richard Angwin Everton Fox Steff Gaulter

Sports	Andy Richardson

Correspondents	Hoda Abdel-Hamid Neave Barker Steve Chao Alan Fisher Jennifer Glasse Peter Greste Casey Kauffman Zeina Khodr Phil Lavelle Anita McNaught Haru Mutasa Yvonne Ndege Lucia Newman Marga Ortigas Barnaby Phillips Rob Reynolds Jacky Rowland Andrew Simmons Clayton Swisher Step Vaessen

Former personalities	Derrick Ashong Zeina Awad Melissa Chan Stephen Cole Brendan Connor Sherine Tadros Shereen El Feki Elizabeth Filippouli Lisa Fletcher Sir David Frost Steve Gaisford Imran Garda Tony Harris Rizwan Khan Avi Lewis Hamish Macdonald David Marash Ayman Mohyeldin Teymoor Nabili Anand Naidoo Arthur Neslen Rageh Omaar Shahnaz Pakravan Amanda Palmer Mark Seddon Sue Turton Monica Villamizar

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