Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born on 5 April 1970) is a British journalist on Channel 4. He presents the Channel 4 News and the foreign-affairs documentary series Unreported World.

His combative interview style has led to awkward moments in interviews with celebrities, including Quentin Tarantino, Robert Downey Jr, Richard Ayoade, and Pharrell Williams.

Guru-Murthy’s career began in 1988 on BBC2’s DEF II discussion programme Open to Question and the youth current-affairs programme Reportage. While at Oxford University he presented BBC2’s Asian current-affairs programmes East and Network East and took over presenting and reporting for the BBC’s children’s news programme Newsround from 1991 to 1994.

He then spent three years as a producer and reporter for BBC2’s Newsnight and in 1997 became one of the launch presenters of the BBC’s new rolling news channel BBC News 24, between 12 noon and 4 pm. During his ten years at the BBC he also presented the news on BBC World, took part in various special events, such as the 1997 general-election programme and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and co-presented The National Lottery Live on Saturday nights on BBC1.

He joined Channel 4 News in 1998, aged 28, and is the second-longest-serving presenter. Between 2003 and 2009 he was also the main presenter of Channel 4 News at Noon. He has reported and presented from around the world covering many disasters, conflicts and political movements, such as the Arab Spring in Egypt.

For Channel 4, Guru-Murthy presented The Operation: Surgery Live, which featured live heart, brain and abdominal surgery, and he hosted The Event – How Racist are You?, The Autopsy, and The Exorcism. He also appeared in a comic documentary about the band Gorillaz, entitled Gorillaz: Charts of Darkness.

Guru-Murthy also hosted the Channel 4 quiz show Number One and two series of Going Cold Turkey.

He presented The TV Show, a discussion programme about television, on Channel 4. In the month before the 2010 General Election, Guru-Murthy moderated the first debate featuring the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his counterparts, in a special programme called Ask the Chancellors.

Guru-Murthy has appeared as himself in a number of movies and TV dramas including Shaun of the Dead and Dead Set.

He has also been Channel 4’s commentator on events such as the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Paralympics, the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi and the reburial of Richard III in Leicester in 2015.

[Source: Wikipedia, 01/03/2021.]