Nina Nannar
Arts editor, ITV News
Nina Nannar is the Arts Editor of ITV News which she joined in 2002 from the BBC. The job involves specialist arts and media coverage for ITV, including covering the Oscars every year and interviewing the biggest names in film, music and TV. She is also a regular contributor to ITV programmes on entertainment, and popular culture. She is a member of Bafta.
Nina is regularly reports for ITV's On Assignment programme, with recent documentaries including groundbreaking treatments in San Francisco in the battle against Aids and HIV, the moves to find alternative food sources in the world and Morocco’s booming film industry.
Nina started out at the BBC as a trainee, then working on regional and national television and radio, including presenting Asian Perspective for 3 years, a live news and current affairs programme on BBC Radio Five Live.
She is the recipient of two honorary doctorates for services to the Media.
She is an Ambassador for the Prince's Trust, chairing events for the charity, and for the British Asian Trust. and is a Governor at the National Centre for Writing and The Young Norfolk Arts Trust.
Nina is also Patron of Akademi, the South Asian Dance Company, the Norwich Film Festival, the domestic abuse charity Leeway and an Ambassador for Kidney Research UK, for whom she recently hosted a fundraising event, alongside former Manchester United footballer Andy Cole. She is a judge of the Bafta Film and TV Awards, the RTS news awards, and has judged the Grierson Documentary awards. Amongst the non news programmes Nina has appeared on are The Weakest Link and Pointless.