Geeta Guru-Murthy

Geeta Guru-Murthy is an English television journalist.

In January 1998 Guru-Murthy covered the breaking of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal from Champaign, Illinois for 5 News.

By 2002, Guru-Murthy was hosting Asia Today, with regular work for BBC World, BBC News 24, and BBC Breakfast, and by 2005 presenting the news on BBC Radio 4.

In 2002, Guru-Murthy appeared in the television series Waking the Dead.

Guru-Murthy married speech-writer and journalist Philip Collins in June 2002, taking a honeymoon in India.

Her younger brother, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, is also a journalist and broadcaster for Channel 4 News.

Since 2013 she has presented mainly morning bulletins, including BBC News at Nine, and bulletins on BBC World News, BBC Two, BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

Guru-Murthy was born in Liverpool, and grew up in West Bradford, Lancashire close to where her father worked as a radiologist in the local hospitals at Burnley and Blackburn.

She was involved with orchestras, theatres and choirs before going on to study biochemistry, and later changing careers.

Guru-Murthy was a reporter for the BBC's regional news programme, BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands), before moving to 5 News.

In 2017 Guru-Murthy was one of several female BBC employees campaigning against the gender pay gap.

On February 2 2023, it was confirmed that Guru-Murthy – along with many other presenters of the domestic BBC News Channel – would lose their presenting roles as part of the BBC's relaunched news channel.

In January 2024, it was announced she would rejoin the channel as a chief presenter.