Fiona Bruce and that the award was "demeaning". Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on "Panorama" in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the "BBC News at Ten" as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including the "BBC News at Six", "Crimewatch", "Real Story", "Antiques Roadshow" and "Fake or Fortune?". Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to
BBC News indefinite ban on BBC broadcasts following the airing of a controversial documentary regarding the 1994 Rwandan genocide, "Rwanda's Untold Story", broadcast on BBC2 on 1 October 2014. The UK's Foreign Office recognised "the hurt caused in Rwanda by some parts of the documentary". In February 2017, reporters from the BBC (as well as the "Daily Mail", "The New York Times", Politico, CNN, and others) were denied access to a United States White House briefing. BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.