Samira is a freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster. She is the Presenter of BBC1’s Newswatch and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. She has reported for the BBC and Channel 4, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and Rhe Spectator. In 2009, Samira won the Stonewall Broadcast of the Year Award. Since 2011, Samira has been a visiting Professor of Journalism at Kingston University. She is an occasional panellist on The News Quiz and a trustee of Action for Stammering Children.