Joyce Ohajah

Joyce is a regular evening presenter on the ITV News Channel, combining these duties with the London Tonight bulletin at 10.50pm.

Joyce joined the ITV News team in February 2001 as a news correspondent, covering a wide range of stories for all ITV's news programmes, before becoming Transport and Travel Correspondent in April 2002.

Since joining ITV News Joyce has reported on a number of high profile stories including the Potters Bar train crash, the Damilola Taylor murder trial, major flooding in the Southeast of England, the foot and mouth crisis and was part of the team covering the Election in 2001 and more recently, the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Before joining ITN Joyce was already an established regional Journalist. She was a senior reporter for the London News Network and co-presented LNN's flagship news programme - London Tonight - with Alastair Stewart. Joyce came to LNN from Central Television in Nottingham where she was also a reporter and presenter.

Joyce's work has also been widely recognised; in the BT Journalist of the Year awards in 1998 she was highly commended for her special: "Windrush: Coming Home." The four part series examined the experiences of people who immigrated to this country 50 years ago and had recently made the decision to move back to the Caribbean.

She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic having started her journalism career in the United States. Joyce's work has been broadcast on network television in the states and her radio reports on the Gulf War were broadcast worldwide. She also produced and presented her own morning radio news programme and hosted a weekly TV current affairs programme "Carolina Concerns" in the Southern United States.

Her career has been varied - for several years she worked behind the camera in production. She was a senior producer at Westcountry Television in Plymouth when the company first went on air and she played a major role in the development of their hour-long nightly news programme "Westcountry Live."

Joyce's family came to England from Nigeria and she was born and raised in East London. She now lives in North London.