Jemma Woodman as new face of Inside Out South West

Mary
Authored by Mary
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 16:46

BBC South West is delighted to announce that Jemma Woodman is the new presenter of the region's current affairs programme Inside Out South West.

Devon-born Jemma is an award-winning journalist and a familiar face to South West TV audiences.

She said: "I've always enjoyed watching Inside Out tackling the South West's most topical issues and keeping us in touch with the region we live in so it feels fantastic to be grabbing the baton and presenting the programme.

"The Inside Out team are going to be crafting unmissable TV built on bedrock of quality journalism and I'm thrilled to be part of that.”

Jemma, who now lives in Cornwall, takes on the Inside Out presenter role vacated by Sam Smith who was recently appointed the programme's editor.

Sam said: "Jemma is not only an experienced and talented journalist, but she also has a passion for the region that shines through on screen.

"She's the ideal person to ask the questions our viewers want answered and to hold local decision-makers to account."

Jemma started her career in local television before joining the Channel 4 Big Breakfast programme and its follow-up show Rise as a newsreader. She also worked as a presenter for Sky News, ITV’s morning news and the ITV News Channel.

She returned to the South West where she anchored the evening news programme Westcountry Live. It was here she won a RTS Regional Current Affairs award for a documentary she researched, wrote and directed.

Since leaving Westcountry Television Jemma has worked as a communications strategist for an international charity and as a producer and director for the Devon-based production company Denhams.
 
The new series of Inside Out starts on Monday September 1 at 7.30pm on BBC One. 

David Holdsworth, BBC Regions controller said, ‘With local news and hard-hitting current affairs alongside investigations and exclusive interviews, the new series of Inside Out will feature some of the BBC’s very best original local journalism. Our presenters across the country are a mix of people from different backgrounds,  who are unafraid to ask difficult questions of people in power and get to the heart of regional issues that affect our audiences.’

In the first programme reporter Jonathan Gibson investigates credit card fraud and BBC Radio Devon presenter David Fitzgerald discovers what happens when you reduce refined sugar in your diet.

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