Ugandan television presenter and reporter
Nancy Kacungira
(born 1986)
[1]
is a Ugandan presenter and reporter at
BBC News
.
[2]
She presented
Focus on Africa
from 2017 to January 2019
and
World Business Report
on
BBC World News
.
After a stint presenting
World News Today
in August 2018, she became the main presenter at 7 pm weekdays and 9 pm weekends from September 2019 when she is not on assignment, as part of here 19:00?01:00GMT/BST, on
BBC Four
,
BBC News Channel
and
BBC World News
, and has presented
In Business Africa
since January 2019, a programme she presented alongside Ashionye Ogene. She also is a relief presenter for
The Briefing
at 05:00GMT on
BBC One
,
BBC News Channel
and
BBC World News
. In 2022 she also started presenting on
BBC World Service
Outside Source
, but she never presented the TV version.
[3]
At the beginning of June 2020, she began presenting most of the evening output two in three weekends, on both BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Including the second half of
BBC News at Ten
on Friday and Saturday, alternative Sundays. Since April 2023 main presenters and correspondents for the new merged BBC News Channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes
The World Today with Nancy Kacungira
, the successor to World News Today, which was rebranded from The Daily Global while she was on maternity leave,
The Context
, UK-opt outs,
BBC News at One
and the
BBC Weekend News
.
Career
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Kacungira began as a radio presenter while still at university, working her way up from intern to Deputy Program Director by the time she received her first class degree. She then earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the
University of Leeds
, where she graduated with distinction.
[4]
Kacungira began her media career as a radio presenter at Power FM, a Christian radio station in
Kampala
, Uganda. In 2010 Kacungira together with her older sister
Seanice Kacungira
co-founded Blu Flamingo; a digital media management company. She moved from radio to TV at
NTV Uganda
as a newsreader from 2012 to 2013, after which she moved to Kenya to work for
KTN News Kenya
as a social media editor in late 2013.
While still at KTN News Kenya in 2015, Kacungira applied for the
Komla Dumor Award
, which she won and went to the BBC for three months' training.
[5]
She then returned to KTN News Kenya but was later hired by the BBC where she presented
Focus on Africa
, but later became the main presenter of
World News Today
and In Business Africa, a main presenter at weekends and
correspondent
both BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenter
Alan Kasujja
.
[6]
Following the merger of BBC World News and BBC News in April 2023, Kacungria became one of the main presenters and correspondents for the new channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes
The Daily Global with Nancy Kacungira
,
The Context
, UK-opt outs and the
BBC Weekend News
. She was also the presenter and correspondent covering
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
phone hacking case against
Mirror Group Newspapers
(MGN) and political events at Westminster including Privileges Committee publicization of a report, which concluded that
Boris Johnson
lied to and deliberately misled the House of Commons over
Partygate
, misled the Committee themselves during the hearing, and acted in contempt of the Committee itself through a "campaign of abuse and intimidation".[736]
Awards
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- 2015 ? BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
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Personal life
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Kacungira announced via Instagram that she had married her boyfriend in January 2023.
[8]
A year later she announced via the same platform that she had given birth to a baby boy in December.
[9]
References
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Media offices
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Preceded by
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Main Presenter of
World News Today
2018?present
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Succeeded by
TBA
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