Carrie Gracie

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education = Edinburgh University
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Carrie Gracie is a Bahrain-born Scottish journalist and newsreader for the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News.

Biography

Education and early working life

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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newstalk/correspondent_biographies/107586.stm BBC News | Correspondent Biographies | Carrie Gracie ] , June 14, 1998]

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.

She later gained additional degrees through part-time study at the University of Westminster: a BA in Chinese in 1996 followed by an MA in design for interactive media.

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 moved back to the UK in 1999 as a presenter on BBC News and on World Service. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_5170000/newsid_5179500/5179570.stm BBC Newswatch profile] ] 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".

Highlights of her career include covering the death of Deng Xiaoping and the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. More recently, Gracie took part in the BBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as a co-commentator during the opening and closing ceremonies.

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. They have two children, Rachel (born 1996) and Daniel (born 1998), who both spent a term in a Chinese school. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5224738.stm Back to school... in China] , "From Our Own Correspondent," BBC, 29 July 2006]

References

External links

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/newshour/news/story/2005/03/050307_carrie_family.shtml Gracie talks to the BBC World Service about her Chinese family]