Jo Coburn

Jo Coburn
Coburn at the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival
Born
Joanne Dawn Coburn

(1967-11-12) 12 November 1967
Hendon, London, England
EducationNorth London Collegiate School for Girls
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
University of Oxford
OccupationsJournalist, presenter, political correspondent
Notable credit(s)BBC London
BBC Breakfast
BBC News Channel
The World This Weekend
Daily Politics
Spouse
Mark Flanagan
(m. 1998)
Children2

Joanne Dawn Coburn (born 12 November 1967) is a British journalist who works for Times Radio. She has spent most of her career with BBC News, having been a regular presenter of Politics Live (and at one time also of Sunday Politics along with Andrew Neil). She was previously a political correspondent for BBC Breakfast and is also a former BBC political correspondent for London, who covered the 2000 London Mayoral election.

In the past Coburn has presented on BBC Radio 4 and also has guested on the weekend current affairs programme The World This Weekend as well as reviewing the Sunday newspapers on The Andrew Marr Show and occasionally being a relief presenter on the BBC News Channel.