Kamahl Santamaria

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Kamahl Santamaria is a foundation news anchor and journalist at Al Jazeera English, based in Doha.

He presents news bulletins, as well as the weekly business and economics programme "Counting the Cost".

Personal life

Kamahl was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. His family was originally from India, from the region of Goa, where many of the surnames reflect a long-standing Portuguese influence.

Career

TV3

He began his journalistic career in 1998 as a news and sports reporter for TV3 in New Zealand.

One early break occurred in 2001, when he was covering the Atlantic Rowing Race. He was on his way to Barbados - where the event was due to finish - when he was grounded at New York's JKF Airport, following the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens. In the event, this made him the only reporter from New Zealand or Australia to be able to cover the disaster on the ground. The crash came only two months after the 9/11 attacks on New York and was therefore, initially, the subject of heightened speculation.

Sky News

After three years working on TV3's flagship nightly news show "3 News", Kamahl moved to Australia where he established and ran Sky News Australia's Melbourne bureau. He was a reporter, presenter and producer on the nightly Sky Business Report with David Koch.[1]

Al Jazeera

In 2004, Kamahl moved to New York and London and in 2005 was recruited by Al Jazeera English to become a news presenter, in Doha in Qatar.

He hosts the station's flagship programme Newshour and the channel's business and economics programme Counting the Cost. He has also hosted the programme Inside Story.

Recently, he has been known to leave the studio, to report on business stories from around the world.

References

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