In 2021 Kay anchored the BBC's coverage of the Presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. Kay anchored coverage of US Presidential Election nights across all BBC platforms in 20, on both occasions presenting with Andrew Neil. In 2018, Kay made a brief appearance in the National Geographic documentary science-fiction series Mars. In June 2015, Kay commented on the launch of Donald Trump bid to become president, predicting that his candidacy declaration would be the high point of his campaign. Until 2009, Kay blogged at the website, True/Slant. She occasionally substituted for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR. ![]() Kay also makes frequent appearances as a guest panelist on Morning Joe and Meet the Press on NBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and in the past also appeared on The Chris Matthews Show, and Larry King Live on CNN. It airs on BBC News, BBC America, and BBC World News. In October 2007, she became correspondent to presenter Matt Frei of BBC World's one-hour Washington-based news broadcast, BBC World News America. Soon afterwards, she joined The Times news bureau, but returned to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002, based in the United States.įrom 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. 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. Kay joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service. Deciding a career in economics was not for her, she left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe.Ī short time later, a friend, Matt Frei, came to her with a tape recorder and persuaded her to become a journalist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988.Īfter graduation, Kay briefly worked for the Bank of England. She studied modern languages at St Hilda's College, Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italian. ![]() She spent time in various Middle Eastern countries where her father was posted as a British diplomat. ![]() Kay was born in Wallingford and grew up in Blewbury (then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire).
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