Ashleigh Banfield, international television news correspondent, is perhaps most noted for her EMMY recognized live coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, as well as follow-up stories that took her to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, England, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Banfield, is currently co-host of Banfield and Ford “Courtside” on TruTV (formerly Court TV). She also hosts the weekly evening program called “Hollywood Heat” and is creator, co-producer, and host of the primetime special series “Disorder in the Court.” She has hosted live programs from locations across the country and around the globe and has anchored several prime time series such as “A Region In Conflict” and “Ashleigh Banfield: On Location.”

As a correspondent for NBC News, she appeared on “The Today Show,” “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” and “Dateline.” While anchoring MSNBC, she covered stories including the 2000 Election and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Banfield served as a news anchor in Dallas, Texas. Her distinguished career began in 1988 as a photographer/ researcher/ reporter at CJBN in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. By 1991 she was working for CICT-TV, Canada, and covering the Bush/Gorbachev Summit in Russia and, in 1992, the Clinton/Yeltsin Summit in Vancouver. Some of Banfield’s most noted interviews include Yasser Arafat, Martha Stewart, Hugh Grant, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, John McCain, Jane Fonda, Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump.

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