Mary Nightingale

Mary Nightingale presents ITV1’s Evening News, and has twice been named Newscaster of the Year by TRIC. She filmed Reward for ITV which examining unsolved crimes some of which date back decades, all of which had an outstanding reward still payable. Mary presented The Girl Who Would be Queen on ITV1 – an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th Birthday where she was given extraordinary access to the Royal Family’s home-movie collection.

In 2006 Mary presented Holiday Undercover for ITV and anchored ITV’s flagship holiday programme Wish You Were Here from 1999-2001 and presented London Tonight.

On the radio Mary hosted her own series for Classic FM entitled Dreaming Aloud – a series of intimate interviews with guests including Stephen Fry and Gordon Ramsay.

Mary started her journalism career as a presenter and writer on World Business Satellite for TV Tokyo – a live daily business bulletin. She then joined BBC World Service Television’s World Business Report as a presenter and writer, covering economic and corporate news. In 2016 it was announced that she would become the sole presenter of ITV Evening News from January 2017.

She has presented the ASDA Company Awards and the UKCB Leadership Forum. Mary has hosted ceremonies for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and FT Business. She has chaired conferences and hosted panel debates for KPMG and Peugeot, and interviewed the CEO of HSBC and Abbey. And, she hosted the Tio Pepe Restaurant Awards five years running.

Before her career in broadcasting Mary was a Eurobond dealer from 1986-1990, initially at Bank of America International and then Tokai International, dealing with European Banks and Investment Funds.

“Mary’s contribution to the success of what happened on-stage in Lisbon for KPMG cannot be understated. She demonstrated a keen grasp of a very complex subject, making all the links, interviews and discussions on-stage meaningful and relevant. Mary recognizes the value of humour and has the capacity to give confidence to the often nervous speakers and panellists, allowing them to perform at their best. She is great with the clients and is extremely flexible – no matter what we in production ask of her. All this combined to make this event much talked about and memorable, with engaged delegates and very happy clients.”

Christophe Stourton @ Catalysm Purple