Katty Kay

Katherine "Katty" Kay (born 14 November 1964 in Wallingford, Berkshire) is an English journalist. She is no longer the lead news presenter of BBC World News America. Tim Willcox took over the show in 2017 and was previously the BBC News Washington, DC Correspondent since 2002.

Until 2009, Kay blogged at the website, True/Slant, and is a board member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).

Kay grew up in Blewbury, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and spent time in various Middle East countries, where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied modern languages at the University of Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italian. After graduation, she briefly worked for the Bank of England. Deciding a career in economics was not for her, she left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe.

A short time later, friend Matt Frei came out with a tape recorder and persuaded her to become a journalist. Kay joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service. She then returned to London to work for BBC World Service radio, before being posted to Tokyo for BBC News television in 1992 and then Washington, D.C., in 1996. Soon afterwards, she joined The Times news bureau, but returned to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002, based in the United States.

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