Anita McNaught

Anita McNaught (born 1965) is a British journalist, television correspondent and former presenter, based in Istanbul in Turkey.

McNaught has worked as a reporter for Television New Zealand (TVNZ), BBC TV and Radio, CNN, Fox News and Al Jazeera English.

At the age of 22 - after working for a couple of years in print - McNaught joined TVNZ as a producer and then reporter.

In 2006 she made a decisive move away from the UK, working first with CNN in Bangladesh and Lebanon, then for two years (2007-2008) with Fox News in Iraq.

She joined Al Jazeera English in 2009, first as a freelance reporter, then from 2010 as a staff correspondent based out of Istanbul, Turkey.

Her work for AJE has taken her to back to Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan and Bangladesh, and to Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, Hungary, and as well as all over Turkey.