Laura Trevelyan
| Laura Trevelyan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Laura Kate Trevelyan 21 August 1968 Islington, London, England |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S.A |
| Nationality | British, U.S (dual citizen) |
| Occupation | Newsreader, anchor and correspondent |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Employer | BBC World News |
| Known for | BBC World News America |
Laura Kate Trevelyan (born 21 August 1968) is a BBC anchor/correspondent based in New York City. Trevelyan was the United Nations correspondent for the BBC from May 2006 until 2009.
Trevelyan was born in Islington, London, England, the oldest of three children. Educated at Parliament Hill School in North London, Trevelyan graduated with a first class degree in Politics from Bristol University. Trevelyan gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from the University of Wales College, Cardiff, in 1991.
Trevelyan began her career as a general reporter for London Newspaper Group in 1991, on titles including the Hammersmith Chronicle. She then joined Channel 4 as a researcher on A Week In Politics in 1992.
She moved to the BBC in 1993, initially taking roles as a researcher for Breakfast News and as an assistant producer for Newsnight before becoming a reporter for On the Record in 1994, where she covered the IRA ceasefire and Northern Ireland peace process. In 1998, Trevelyan shifted her focus to political reporting, covering Westminster, the 2001 general election and the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. She was a political correspondent for BBC News from 1999 and was based in London until her move to the US in 2004 to cover the presidential election.
From 2006 to 2009 Trevelyan covered the United Nations, travelling to Darfur, Congo, Burma and Sri Lanka and was the first journalist to interview Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. From 2009 to 2012 Trevelyan was a BBC correspondent based in New York, covering everything from the row over the proposed mosque at ground zero to Haiti's cholera epidemic.
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