Reeta Chakrabarti
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Reeta Chakrabarti (born 12 December 1964[1]) is a political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.
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[edit] Biography
Chakrabarti was born in London to a Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the International School in Kolkata[1]. She has a degree in English and French from Exeter College, Oxford, where she graduated in 1984, and she also spent a year in France whilst a student.
[edit] Career
In 1994, Chakrabarti became a reporter for the Breakfast Programme on the newly launched BBC Radio Five Live.[2] She later became a general news correspondent working on television as well as radio.
In 1997, she became the BBC Community Affairs correspondent, covering the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and also working on Home Affairs.
In 1999 Chakrabarti secured her current role as political correspondent for the BBC, working across a range of programmes in television and radio, reporting on politics for BBC1, BBC2, the BBC News Channel, Radio 4 and Five Live. Currently she is the principal political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme. She also writes on general issues, including her own entry to the 2008 edition of Who's Who.[3]
She has also chaired and hosted a number of corporate events, including the 2003 and 2004 Educational Television Awards Dinners for the Royal Television Society.[4]
[edit] Personal life
Chakrabarti is married, lives in North London, and has three children.
Her interests include patronage of the Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS charity focussing on minority groups affected by the disease, and of the National Mentoring Consortium, linking ethnic minority undergraduates with employers in the public and private sectors.
[edit] References
- ^ Who's Who 2008
- ^ BBC Breakfast
- ^ Why am I included in Who's Who? BBC News - 4 December, 2007
- ^ rts.org.uk
