Former Carte Blanche presenter and international broadcaster, Martine Dennis, has joined Al Jazeera English as a news presenter. In 1989, Dennis became a presenter, reporter and producer at Sky News, before moving to South Africa in 1991, freelancing for the BBC World Service, mainly covering the final days of apartheid South Africa.
In 1995, she returned to London to work briefly as a correspondent for BBC1's Here and Now weekly programme. Later she became a main presenter of BBC World News, presenting the first edition of The World Today when it was launched in September 2001. Dennis remained as the main presenter of The World Today until she left the BBC in 2014.
