Penny Marshall is Africa Correspondent for ITV News.
She’s been an International Correspondent, and a Social Affairs Correspondent for ITV News.
Prior to this, Penny was Defence and Diplomatic correspondent, a role she was appointed to in September 1995.
Penny joined ITN in 1985 as a production trainee, becoming an editorial trainee in 1987 and qualifying as a writer in February 1988.
She was then appointed Home/Media Affairs Correspondent before becoming a general reporter in the summer of 1989.
Penny’s career started at the Listener Magazine in 1984 where she worked as a sub-editor. From there, she moved to the Wimbledon News as a reporter.
Penny was educated at St Helens School, Northwood and took a BA Hons in History at the London School of Economics.
She plays both the piano and the flute. She is married journalist Tim Ewart, a former BBC Newsroom South East presenter and a former Royal Correspondent at ITV News.