Janine Machin

Janine Machin (born 24 February 1978) is a British radio and TV presenter. Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and is a graduate of Newcastle High School and Oxford University.

Machin began her media work in Staffordshire and Cheshire as the hostess of the breakfast show on BBC Radio Stoke. She joined the radio station in 1999 as a telephone answerer and then in 2002 she became co-presenter of the breakfast show along with Kevin Fernihough. After Fernihough's departure in 2004 to BBC Radio Northampton, Machin hosted the show as its sole presenter. In 2007 Machin joined BBC Look East based in Cambridge as a presenter and reporter for the BBC's Look East's "Close Up" service.