Barbara Serra is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and author, broadcasting and writing in both English and Italian. She regularly presents the main evening programmes on Sky News UK. 

From 2006 to 2022 she anchored Al Jazeera English’s flagship NewsHour programme from London, and reported extensively from Europe and the Middle East. In 2020 Barbara co-produced, wrote and presented the documentary Fascism in the Family, looking at her own family’s fascist history to assess the influence that fascism exerts in modern-day Italy. The Italian language book on the same story ‘Fascismo in Famiglia’ (Garzanti) was published in April 2025.

Barbara writes the Substack newsletter News with a Foreign Accent, which looks at the challenges of being second-language English and the impact that using English as the global language has on the international media’s perception of world affairs.

In 2019 Barbara was awarded a Knighthood of the Order of the Star of Italy from the President of the Italian Republic for her work in international journalism.