Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is an English retired journalist, television presenter and newsreader.

After her father became the parish priest at St Martin's Church in Brampton she moved to the White House Grammar School.

In February 1978, Ford moved to ITN, and briefly faced legal threats from the BBC for breaking her contract.

When her subterfuge was exposed, ITN immediately terminated her contract and publicly criticized her dishonesty and disloyalty.

[9] Her tenure at TV-am was short lived in part due to fierce competition from the BBC's casually styled Breakfast Time.

The loss of viewers resulted in a relaunch which was perceived as "dumbing-down" of the station, and only three months after the station's launch, Ford was dismissed from TV-am partly due to her on-air support for chairman Peter Jay (who had already resigned) and partly because she refused to stand down from Good Morning Britain when the ratings slumped.

[10] Ford re-joined the BBC in summer 1986, Firstly to cover for Wogan in June, and other minor roles.

"Ford presented her last One O'Clock News on 27 April 2006, signing off by introducing a compilation of clips of her career.

On 2 May 2006, J Sainsbury plc, the UK supermarket group, announced Ford was joining the company as a non-executive director.

On 22 April 2006, Ford received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews, nominated by Sir Menzies Campbell.

[17][18] She married the magazine editor and cartoonist Mark Boxer in 1981;[17] with whom she had two daughters, before he died of a brain tumour in 1988 at their home in Brentford, Greater London.