Carrie Gracie

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Carrie Gracie is a Scottish journalist and newsreader for the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 BBC career 1.2 Personal life 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Biography

Gracie's father was a Scottish oil executive, with Carrie born while he was on assignment in Bahrain. She was educated in Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and Aberdeen. She studied at Edinburgh University, leaving to run her own restaurant for a year. She then graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.^[1]

In 1985 she went to China to teach English and Economics at Yantai and Chongqing Universities. On her return to Britain a year later she managed a small film company.^[2]

[edit] BBC career

Gracie joined the BBC World Service in 1987 as a trainee producer, working in many areas at the head quarters in London as well as on assignment, including African, Chinese and Asia-Pacific regions. She became a correspondent for BBC World Service and then for domestic radio and television in Beijing in 1991. Gracie then moved back to the UK as a presenter on BBC News and on World Service. Since January 2008 she has been the main morning presenter on BBC News each Tuesday to Friday alongside Simon McCoy, previously her co-presenter on Fridays.

She appeared as herself, reading the news, on the BBC Two drama Party Animals.

[edit] Personal life

Gracie used to be married to Chinese rock star Jin (born 1958, named after Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward), and is herself a fluent Mandarin speaker. The couple had two children, Rachel (born 1996) and Daniel (born 1998); who both spent a term in a Chinese school.^[3]

She has degrees gained part-time through the University of Westminster: an MA in design for interactive media; BA in Chinese in 1996.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• BBC Newswatch profile
• Carrie Gracie at the Internet Movie Database
• Gracie talks to the BBC World Service about her Chinese family