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Photo: Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Krishnan Guru-Murthy anchors Channel 4 News from Friday to Sunday and is the main anchor of the News at Noon. He has also reported from around the world, most recently the Mumbai terror attacks and the US Presidential Inauguration.

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Skin deep - the fight for acceptance »

A new film describes the true story of a white Afrikaaner couple who gave birth to a child with dark skin and frizzy hair, unaware they had black ancestry. Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports.

Sandra Laing with her mother

M&S cautious after fall in sales »

Despite a fall in sales figures Marks & Spencer says that there are signs of economic improvement. Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose.

M&S (Reuters)

Exclusive: new film of Mumbai gunmen »

Revealed: the first interrogation of the only surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks, never before seen footage of the attacks and the recorded phone calls from the Pakistani attackers to their controllers.

Latest podcasts from Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Biography

Krishnan presents Channel 4 News from Friday to Sunday and is also the main anchor of the Channel 4 News at Noon.

He joined the team in 1998 after ten years at the BBC presenting, reporting and producing on a variety of programmes from "Newsnight" to "Newsround".

During that time he covered everything from wars and disasters to politics and pop music.

His broadcasting career started in his gap year before Oxford University when an appearance on BBC 2's youth discussion programme "Open to Question" led to him taking over as the programme's presenter.

As well as anchoring Channel 4 News, Krishnan has been around Britain and the world reporting for the programme, from the Kashmir conflict to American politics and from the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland to earthquakes in India and Turkey.

He presented much of Channel 4's special coverage of the 9-11 attacks, the Afghan and Iraq wars and the Asian Tsunami.

He has reported extensively from India over the years and made several special programmes there. He also covered the Indian train bombings in February 2007 and the Mumbai hotel attacks in November 2008.

Krishnan also presents The TV Show, Channel 4's monthly programme in which viewers discuss television with producers and has fronted a variety of other programmes for Channel 4 including "The Autopsy", "Britain's Deadliest Addictions" and "Going Cold Turkey".

You can find him on Twitter as Krishgm.

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