PERSON: Laura Trevelyan
Employer
Cardiff University
Position
Chancellor
Biography
Laura Kate Trevelyan (born 21 August 1968) is a British-American journalist who worked for the BBC for 30 years. She served as an On the Record reporter, United Nations correspondent (2006–2009), and New York correspondent (2009–2012), before anchoring BBC World News America (2012–2023).
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.
Trevelyan 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, which coincided with her husband James Goldston’s move to the US, to become a Senior Producer at ABC News in New York, after he left his role at ITV as an executive producer.
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, she was a BBC correspondent based in New York. After three years as the BBC’s New York correspondent, Trevelyan joined BBC World News America as an anchor/correspondent.
In 2022, after uncovering her family’s links to slavery in the Caribbean, Trevelyan made a documentary for the BBC World Service called Grenada: Confronting the past in 2022.
In March 2023, Trevelyan announced she would be stepping down from her position at the BBC after “30 incredible years” to become a full-time advocate for reparations for slavery. Acting BBC executive Paul Royall thanked her for her “outstanding” contributions to the BBC.
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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.
Trevelyan 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, which coincided with her husband James Goldston’s move to the US, to become a Senior Producer at ABC News in New York, after he left his role at ITV as an executive producer.
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, she was a BBC correspondent based in New York. After three years as the BBC’s New York correspondent, Trevelyan joined BBC World News America as an anchor/correspondent.
In 2022, after uncovering her family’s links to slavery in the Caribbean, Trevelyan made a documentary for the BBC World Service called Grenada: Confronting the past in 2022.
In March 2023, Trevelyan announced she would be stepping down from her position at the BBC after “30 incredible years” to become a full-time advocate for reparations for slavery. Acting BBC executive Paul Royall thanked her for her “outstanding” contributions to the BBC.
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