After Dinner Speakers: Katie Durham, Gary Lineker, Freddie & The Dreamers

Katie Derham is ITV News Senior Media and Arts Correspondent. She also presents the ITV Weekend News on Friday evenings as well as the programmes on Saturdays and Sundays. Katie was voted New TV Talent of the Year in March 1999 at the Television & Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards. Katie, who joined ITV News in January 1998, had previously been Saturday newscaster on ITV since the beginning of 1999. She also acted as a stand-in presenter of a number of Friday editions of the ITV Nightly News before it was renamed in January 2001. She fronted her own media show, "Wide Angle", on the digital channel ITV2 from December 1998 to December 1999. The half-hour programme gave an insider's view of the news of the week and of the world of newsgathering. Katie came to ITV News after spending four years with the BBC, where she started her journalistic career as a researcher on Radio 4's "Moneybox". In 1995 she won the Bradford and Bingley Best Personal Finance Broadcaster Award for her work as a presenter on Radio 5 Live's "Moneycheck" programme. She also edited Radio 4's Financial World Tonight programme. She moved across to BBC television in 1996 as a consumer affairs correspondent and subsequently became a reporter for "Film '96" and "Film '97", interviewing many of the top names of American and UK cinema. Katie has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is married and in 2000 had a daughter, Natasha. She lives with her family in west London.