
Since joining the team in 1998 he has fronted big events from the Omagh bombing and 9/11 to special war coverage and the Mumbai attacks. Having covered five British general elections he does special political shows for Channel 4 such as the "Ask the Chancellors" debate. Krishnan also anchors controversial programmes outside the news including the first live televised "Autopsy".
His TV career began at the age of eighteen presenting youth television for the BBC. He went on to present, report and produce a variety of programmes from Newsround to Newsnight.
Married with two children Krish also writes Gurublog.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviews Larry Summers, one of the most renowned economists in the world, the man who ran the US economic policy for Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
I can now genuinely say that I have sung on stage before a paying audience with Gary Barlow. Hilarious.
Democracy and press freedom campaigners are calling today Black Tuesday in reference to October 19th 1977 (called Black Wednesday - though rather different to the one in Britain) when the apartheid re