Laura Kuenssberg

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Laura Kuenssberg

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Name Laura Kuenssberg (born 1976)
Hackery
Company The BBC
ITV
Positions • Presenter, Newsnight
• Business Editor, ITV News (September 2011 - Present)
• Chief Political Correspondent, BBC News, (? - September 2011)
Likes Irn Bru, Partick Thistle F.C., The West Wing
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Nationality Scottish
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Laura Kuenssberg was the BBC's chief political correspondent during the 2010 coalition negotiations. Observed evidence suggests she spent this time camping out in Downing Street and staking out Number Ten, so that every time a politician came in or out she could offer up slashy commentary for the good of the world. Her presence was so ubiquitous that journalist David Aaronovitch coined the term "Kuenssbergovision" to describe the BBC coverage. This has done her some good professionally; she is one of the only journalists whose name David Cameron can remember[1], and of course, she has a page on this wiki.

Life and Career[edit | edit source]

Early Life[edit | edit source]

Laura was born in Italy and grew up in Glasgow. She studied History at the University of Edinburgh and her postgraduate studies in journalism at Georgetown University where she worked at NBC.

Career[edit | edit source]

After returning to the UK, Laura began working on local radio in Glasgow and joined BBC North East and Cumbria in March 2000. She also worked for Channel 4 prior to becoming a political correspondent for BBC news, including working on The Daily Politics. During the period between the 2010 general electiom and the formation of the coalition government, Laura was on TV reporting every tiny leak about government negotiations and won over the hearts of loliticians everywhere for her dedication to political gossip and shipping Clameron.

In 2011 she left for ITV which was met with sadness in fandom but she returned to the Beeb in 2013, joining the cast of Newsnight. After Nick Robinson stood down as Politics Editor of the BBC in July 2015, Laura was promoted, becoming the first woman to hold the role[2].

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