Radio 4 Today host Mishal Husain to leave BBC

Radio 4 Today programme co-presenter Mishal Husain is to leave the BBC in the New Year, the corporation has announced.

Husain has been a host on the station’s flagship current affairs morning show for 11 years, and also presented the broadcaster’s recent UK general election debates.

The presenter, who joined the BBC in 1998, has also presented the BBC News at Six and Ten, as well its news channels.

She will join Bloomberg to host a new interview series and be editor-at-large of its Weekend Edition.

Husain said in a statement that her BBC career had “involved many memorable moments, going to places I would never otherwise have seen, witnessing history and being part of live, national conversation on Radio 4”.

She added: “I will always be grateful for the opportunities the BBC gave me, and wish the organisation and everyone who is part of it the very best.”

Owenna Griffiths, editor of the Today programme, described Husain as “not only a formidable journalist and first-rate presenter” but also “an extremely generous and thoughtful colleague”.

“It has been my great privilege to work alongside her and, along with the Today team, I’ll miss her enormously but wish her all the very best in her new venture,” she said.