Rachel Katherine Schofield (born 1976, Hampshire) is a journalist who works for the BBC.
She can usually be seen presenting regular relief shifts on BBC News, the corporation's rolling news channel, each Monday-Wednesday. She returned to BBC News in October 2007 after a year-long maternity leave.
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Schofield was educated at St Margaret's School, Exeter, an independent school for girls, near the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in south-west England.
She studied Modern European Languages (French, German and Italian) at Durham University (St John's College)[1], where she joined Purple FM. She was at Durham from 1994-98, spending a year in Vienna. From 1998-9 she did a Broadcast Journalism course[2] at the London College of Printing (now called the London College of Communication).
She started her career at the BBC on BBC Radio Newcastle in 1999 and also reported for BBC Look North. She then moved to be a reporter for BBC Radio Four before joining BBC News.
She met Jeremy Vine at a gala dinner. Six months later in the run-up to the 2001 general election, the Newsnight reporter toured the country from Land's End to John o' Groats in a 1976 VW camper van. Stopping off at Newcastle upon Tyne (where he had initially worked in local radio) he met Rachel Schofield while she was working at the BBC's Look North. It was an instant attraction, and he proposed in early April 2002, when she was living in east London, aged 26, and working on You and Yours.
She married the BBC Radio 2 and Panorama presenter Jeremy Vine in a Devon village church in September 2002. By that time she was working on Woman's Hour. They went on honeymoon in Sicily.
She gave birth to a girl in March 2004. They live in west London.