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Since joining CNN in 1999, Femi has reported on a wide variety
of science and feature stories including live reporting from
the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002. Femi is also
one of the anchors and correspondents for the monthly programme
series Global Challenges. Femi continues to host the weekday
edition of World Report, the only global news bulletin that
features reporting from television networks around the world.
Before joining CNN Femi was a well-known broadcaster
in the UK, where she produced award-winning television and
reported and hosted news and current affairs programs, science,
educational and entertainment shows.
Femi worked as a weather presenter for both London Weekend
Television and Carlton Television in London, before joining
CNN. She has also hosted, reported for and produced various
news and current affairs programs, science, educational and
entertainment shows throughout the United Kingdom, Europe,
the Caribbean and the United States. She has wrestled with
a crocodile in the mangroves of Jamaica, and reported from
the frigid depths of a British Antarctic Survey refrigerator
with temperatures plunging to minus 37 Fahrenheit.
Her career began when she was 14 years old, as a junior
reporter for the UK's first talk radio station LBC. Femi's
career began when she was fourteen years old, as a junior
reporter for the United Kingdom's first talk radio station
LBC. Femi continued to work for commercial radio during her
time at school and university. When she graduated from Birmingham
University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature
and Language she joined the BBC as a radio reporter and producer.
Since the 1980's Femi has worked for BBC television and radio
and all the UK terrestrial television networks.
She received her bachelors degree in English literature
and language from Birmingham University in England. She has
been invited to teach on behalf of the World Meteorological
Organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, conducted guest lectures
for Emory University in Atlanta and been a guest speaker at
the United Nations, addressing the World Food Programme in
Rome, Italy.
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