Joanne Malin

Joanne Malin is the main female face of ITV Central in the West Midlands. She has presented the channel’s main news programme, Central Tonight, for the last 9 years.

Joanne can also be seen presenting regional programmes for ITV. Most recently she fronted a Local Heroes special on Carers and earlier in 2007 she presented Extinct and Climate Change – Make a Difference, both co-productions with ITV London.

She has won the Royal Television Society Midlands Centre, Best ‘On Screen’ Personality Award twice and has also won the Best Business Programme/Series at the national Harold Wincott Business Awards for a series for Central News called Malin Means Business.

Joanne was born in Birmingham and now lives in Worcestershire. She trained as a journalist at Highbury College in Portsmouth in 1992 from where she graduated with distinction and won the Best Documentary Prize.

When not presenting Central News Joanne helps raise funds for The Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust and this year, after months of training, she took part in a gruelling trek in the Grand Canyon, which was shown on Central Tonight and raised around £60,000 for the charity.

Joanne has also presented the Breakfast Show for Capital Gold Radio across the West Midlands and has previously presented for Reuters, Sky News and on Live TV in London.

Before training as a journalist Joanne worked in musical theatre, after graduating from The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her professional career began in Jack and The Beanstalk with Russ Abbott at the Birmingham Hippodrome and went on to include roles in the first UK Tour of the West End hit 42nd Street and in Grease, where she played the beauty school drop-out Frenchy.

Although Joanne thought her theatre days were well and truly over when she trained as a journalist, she made a spectacular appearance at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre recently as the glamorous Fairy Godmother in the Christmas Pantomime, Cinderella.