# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeinab-badawi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:46:58.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeinab-badawi"
name: "Zeinab Badawi"
slug: "zeinab-badawi"
description: "Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News, and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and Reporters, a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC. In 2021, Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London. Badawi serves on several civic boards and published her first book, An African History of Africa, in 2024."
tagline: "Sudanese-British broadcaster (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zeinab_Badawi_crop_UNISDR.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1959-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump