Samantha Johnson
Journalist
Writer and producer whose career has taken her to Sky Sports, News UK, BeIn Sports, Chelsea TV, Coral TV, Girls Sport Talk and Aspire magazine. She became the face of The Sun’s digital revolution as well as the face of the official Lotto campaign for News UK.
She worked as a researcher and then as a sub-editor at Sky Sports News. In college, she worked as a bar backer (glass collector) in a restaurant and bar in Birmingham. While at university, she worked part-time at Sony BMG music and held down a part-time job at Burberry as a sales assistant.
She was named in the 2014 PowerList Top 20 list of Britain’s Most Influential people Under 40 and Football’s Black list.
She was born in Birmingham, UK.
An an anchor for a live sports show on Arise News which broadcasts to the United States, UK, Africa and Middle East, she has interviewed a host of sports personalities, journalists, actors and musicians such as Ashley Cole and