Penny Marshall returns to ITV News as Social Affairs Editor

Penny Marshall returns to ITV News as Social Affairs Editor

ITV News announced today that award-winning journalist Penny Marshall will return to the ITV newsroom as Social Affairs Editor in the new year.

Penny will re-join the team from the BBC where she recently held the position of Education Editor. She will lead ITV News' in-depth reporting and analysis of immediate issues affecting the lives of the British public, from education and religion, to welfare and public services. She will also deliver special long form reports for ITV's Tonight programme and monthly current affairs strand, On Assignment.

Penny has an impressive history at ITN and is renowned for her incisive journalism uncovering the Serb-run detention camps in Bosnia in 1992. Her reports alerted the world to the full horror of ethnic cleansing and won an array of awards including a BAFTA, a Royal Television Society Journalism Award and a prestigious Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism.

Penny Marshall, ITV News Social Affairs Editor, said: I am very proud to be rejoining my impressive colleagues in the ITV newsroom with a general election approaching when social affairs will be centre stage of the national debate and at the heart of ITV's coverage.

Having joined ITN in 1985, Penny has previously held positions as Home/Media Affairs Correspondent, Moscow Reporter, Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent, Special Correspondent for News at Ten and until May of this year, Social Affairs Editor. In her three decades as a TV journalist, she has covered hundreds of major stories from the release of Nelson Mandela to the Romanian Revolution, the inauguration of Bill Clinton and the end of the Soviet Union.

Additionally, Penny has written and presented a number of BBC Radio 4 programmes and written news features for a range of broadsheet newspapers. In her new role, she will also be contributing regular news updates, blogs and analysis to itv.com/news, Facebook and Twitter.

Michael Jermey, ITVs Director of News and Current Affairs, said: "Penny is a distinguished broadcast journalist with an impressive track record. Im delighted shes rejoining ITV News."

Geoff Hill, Editor of ITV News, said: Penny is a remarkable journalist with a record of producing world class journalism. I speak for the entire newsroom when I say I am thrilled that she's returning to ITV News and bringing her unrivalled expertise back to the newsroom to report on a range of important issues affecting millions of our viewers around Britain today.

Notes to editors:

Penny Marshall's 1992 television reports on Serb-run detention camps in Bosnia won the International News Award at the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards, Gold and Silver Medals at the Annual Film & Television Festival of New York, joint top prize with Ian Williams - in the BAFTA news category and a prestigious Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism. Penny is a visiting Professor of Journalism at City University.

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