Andrea Benfield, is an English journalist, currently co-anchoring the evening news programme Wales Tonight and the weekly arts and entertainment series, The Wales Show, for ITV Wales. Born in Guildford, Surrey, Benfield graduated from Southampton University with a degree in English literature, before gaining a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Highbury College, Portsmouth. Latterly, she has gained a political diploma through the Open University.

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  • Andrea Benfield, is an English journalist, currently co-anchoring the evening news programme Wales Tonight and the weekly arts and entertainment series, The Wales Show, for ITV Wales. Born in Guildford, Surrey, Benfield graduated from Southampton University with a degree in English literature, before gaining a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Highbury College, Portsmouth. Latterly, she has gained a political diploma through the Open University. Benfield started her journalism and media career as a local radio reporter for County Sound Radio 1566 AM. She then joined local television station MyTV Portsmouth as a reporter, but when the station was forced to lay off staff she was promoted to news editor at the station. When Portsmouth TV ceased broadcasting she moved to Oxford's local TV station, Six TV before joining ITV Thames Valley as a reporter. It was while here that she produced a series of special reports on the Royal Air Force, reporting on pilots and their training at RAF Odiham before they were posted to Afghanistan, which was eventually shown nationally on ITV2 and placed runner up in the regional Royal Television Society awards. Following the departure of Lucy Owen to BBC Wales's evening news programme Wales Today in November 2007, Benfield applied for the resulting vacancy on Wales Tonight. On 17 December, it was announced that she had beaten 80 other applicants to the post, and undertook her first show opposite Jonathon Hill on 14 January 2008. Prior to her debut, Benfield moved from Surrey to Cardiff Bay.
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