Sam Naz
Samreen "Sam" Naz is a British television presenter, journalist and actress, currently working as a news anchor for Sky News in London. She has previously hosted several news programmes including "60 Seconds". Early life and education. Naz was born and brought up in Birmingham and is of Pakistani descent. She attended the University of Leeds before completing a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Leeds Trinity University. In 2002, she received a bursary from the George Viner Memorial Fund, an initiative by the National Union of Journalists to broaden the diversity of journalists in the media. Career. In  2011 she became the main presenter of BBC Three's "60 Seconds", anchoring the bulletins from Mondays to Thursdays. She also co-hosted BBC Three's live political discussion programme "Free Speech". Naz joined the line-up at Sky News in 2016 and regularly presents the overnight shift on the channel from midnight til 6am. She hosted a special Media Summits event about Brexit in 2017, which featured Ed Vaizey. Sam Naz has been a regular anchor of the overnight and early morning coverage on Sky News since 2016, typically being on air from midnight til 6am presenting  Sky Midnight News and Sky World News. As of 2021, Sam Naz has been one of most frequent presenters of this slot. Naz wrote, produced and starred in a short film called "Liberté", in which she played the lead role of Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim secret agent working for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The film premiered in Los Angeles in September 2021.