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James Menendez is a British journalist and radio broadcaster working for BBC News, BBC World Service, and BBC World News. Menendez is one of the main presenters of Newshour on the BBC World Service.

Career

Menendez joined the BBC as a trainee reporter in 1995. He then became a reporter for the BBC World Service before becoming the BBC Correspondent in Venezuela.

In 2004, Menendez moved back to London, as an occasional presenter on Newshour and The World Today. In 2007, he became one of the main presenters of World Briefing before becoming a main presenter on Newshour. In addition to presenting the programme, Menendez reports for Newshour from around the world. On 13 April 2015, he started presenting World News Today on BBC Four and BBC World News.

In 2017, a live interview he was conducting remotely on BBC World News with Robert Kelly at home went viral after the interviewee's children burst into the room and started dancing, before being removed on camera by their mother.

On 1 July 2022 Menendez presented The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

References

1. "BBC World Service - Institutional - James Menendez".
2. "@jamesmenendez" on Twitter
3. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Children interrupt BBC News interview - BBC News. YouTube.
4. "Babies videobomb dad's live TV interview and a boss's gender-swapping experiment". BBC News. 10 March 2017.

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