JF Photo••Juliette Foster

A veteran journalist with more than twenty years media experience, Juliette Foster has worked with some of Europe’s leading broadcast organisations and has interviewed such major political figures as the Right Honourable Tony Blair and the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Juliette’s intelligent interview style and sharp analytical mind have earned her the respect of her peers and made her a firm favourite with television and radio audiences. She has also interviewed leading figures from the world of business and economics including the billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick, and the influential economist Professor Charles Bean, from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Juliette’s media career began with BBC Radio London, where as a novice reporter she was part of a small team of freelance journalists who covered news and feature stories around the capital. She later moved to the Corporation’s Manchester television studios where she was a researcher for the award winning current affairs series Brass Tacks. It was a challenging period that gave her a first hand opportunity to witness the nuts and bolts of program making and which firmly set the course of her future career. In 1988 she was one of six young people from an ethnic minority background selected by the BBC’s Asian Afro-Caribbean Reporters’ Trust (AACRT), to train as television news reporters. Over a two year period the students were given work placements in the BBC’s regional newsrooms: in Juliette’s case she was despatched to London, Newcastle, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow. On completing her training she switched to the independent sector and joined the pioneering breakfast television station TV-am. Initially Juliette was hired as a production journalist but was later appointed Regional News Reporter for the East and West Midlands. She stayed with TV-am until 1992 and spent the following four years freelancing for Channel 4 Television, Carlton Television, Associated Press Television, BBC World Service Television News, and BBC Radio.

In 1996 Juliette joined the US business channel Bloomberg Information Television and spent four fruitful years covering financial and economic stories from the company’s London office. She anchored the breakfast show On the Money, and presented, wrote, and produced financial news bulletins that were syndicated to American and UK radio stations. Her prodigious output and distinctive skills soon caught the attention of Sky News, which she joined in 2001. At first Juliette anchored the channel’s morning business bulletins and the market reports for the afternoon show Business Today. But it wasn’t too long before she was presenting some of the channel’s flagship programmes including the breakfast show Sunrise, Sky News at Ten, and Live at Five. Juliette’s achievements were formally recognised in 2002, when the banking giant HSBC and The European Federation of Black Women Business Owners, presented her with a special award that honoured her professionalism.