Barbara Serra

TV presenter and documentary-maker

Barbara Serra is an award-winning journalist, TV presenter, documentary-maker and author. She's been presenting on Sky News since October 2023. From 2006 to 2022 she anchored Al Jazeera English’s flagship NewsHour programme from the channel’s European headquarters in London, and reported extensively from Europe and the Middle East.

In 2020 Barbara co-produced, wrote and presented the documentary Fascism in the Family, which won both the ‘Current Affairs’ and ‘History’ categories at the New York Festival’s Film and Television awards.

Barbara writes a Substack Newsletter called News with a Foreign Accent, in which she explores the challenges of being second-language English and the impact that English as the global language has on the international media’s perception of world affairs.

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