Katty Kay

Katty Kay
Born (1964-11-14) 14 November 1964
Wallingford, Berkshire, England
Education University of Oxford
Occupation
Spouse(s) Tom Carver

Katherine "Katty" Kay (born 14 November 1964) is an English journalist. She presents BBC World News America and, with Christian Fraser, co-hosts Beyond 100 Days on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News. She also appears weekly on NBC News in Morning Joe.

Kay has written two books. On 2 June 2009, Harper Collins published Womenomics, a book written by Kay and ABC News' Good Morning America senior national correspondent Claire Shipman exploring the redefinition of success for working women based on recent trends of the value of women to the business world.

On 15 April 2014, HarperBusiness published The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, a book written by Kay and Shipman.

She is a board member at the International Women's Media Foundation.[1]

Early life and education

Kay was born in Wallingford and grew up in Blewbury (then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire). She spent time in various Middle East countries where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied modern languages at Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italian.[2][3]

Career

After graduation, she briefly worked for the Bank of England.[4] 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.[5] 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.

From June 2004, Kay co-presented the BBC World news bulletins with Mike Embley in London, shown on 230 public broadcast-television stations throughout the US and on BBC America.[6] In October 2007, she became correspondent to presenter Matt Frei of BBC World's one-hour Washington-based news broadcast, BBC World News America. It airs on BBC News, BBC America, and BBC World News. She currently anchors the show. Kay also makes frequent appearances as a guest panelist on The Chris Matthews Show, Morning Joe and Meet the Press on NBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and in the past also appeared on Larry King Live on CNN. She occasionally substituted for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR.

Until 2009, Kay blogged at the website, True/Slant.

Personal life

Kay is married to ex-BBC reporter and current Control Risks Group senior vice-president Tom Carver. They have four children.

Kay owned a macaque named Joseph when living in Morocco as a girl.

Works

  • Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, Womenomics, (HarperBusiness, 2 June 2009) ISBN 978-0-06-169718-0
  • Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, ISBN 006223062X ASIN: B00DB368AY

References

  1. ↑ "Board of Directors". International Women's Media Foundation. 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Kurtz, Howard (26 February 2007). "Katty Kay, Calibrating Britney for the Beeb". Washington Post. Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  3. ↑ "Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006: Katherine; Kay; 1964". Findmypast. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "BBC News - World News America - Katty Kay". BBC News. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "She said... Katty Kay". BBC World Service. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  6. ↑ "Katty Kay". BBC World. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
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