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Laura Kuenssberg

Laura Kuenssberg is a British Journalist. Laura Kuenssberg became the first woman to hold the position of BBC political editor.

What is the age of Laura Kuenssberg?

Laura Kuenssberg was born in 1976 and currently is 48 years old and raised in Italy. His father’s name is   Nick Kuenssberg and his mother’s name is Sally Kuenssberg. Similarly, he has a brother and sister, David and Joanna respectively. Similarly, he holds Italian nationality with the birth sign. His father is a businessman whereas his mother worked in children’s services and received the honor. His paternal grandfather is Ekkehard von Kuenssberg whereas his maternal grandfather is Lord Robertson.

Talking about his education, while working on an NBC News political program, she studied journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and history at the University of Edinburgh.

Career and Professional Life

Before joining BBC North East and Cumbria in the position of Trainee journalist. She returned Uk and started to work on local radio and Cable Television.

Laura Kuenssberg reported for BBC One bulletins, Daily Politics, and BBC News and was appointed as the chief correspondent for BBC News. She performed the advanced and creative role of business editor for ITV News which replaced her from BBC radio4 BBC News Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News. She contributed her reporting skills and later debuted with  English journalist  Alastair Stewart, as co-news casting News at Ten. Later, the news said that he will return to BBC as chief correspondent by replacing Gavin Esler and will leave ITV.

BBC political editor

after working as a journalist on TV shows, she became the first woman to hold the position of BBC’s political editor. She was working under the announcement of  Stephen Doughty’s resignation as a shadow foreign office minister on Daily Politic due to a complaint from the Labour Party’s director of communications. Similarly, she gathered a source that the queen made supportive comments about leaving the EV in private lunch at Windsor Castel. BBC generally requires a story to have two sources before it can run so she didn’t decide to report immediately.

Similarly. she attended the press conference with Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump. It held for the number of controversial statements, Trump made on the campaign trail. Likewise, she introduces his documentary film, The Brexit Storm: Laura Kuenssberg’s Inside Story.

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Caption: Laura posing for the photo

Bias Allegation

Kuenssberg was biased against the Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. Which happened when an appeal was started on 38 degrees and called her for dismissal. However, her appeal was later withdrawn by David Babb, executive director of 38 Degrees. It has become a point of concern when it becomes a “focal point for sexist and hateful abuse made towards Laura Kuenssberg” on other social media websites.

Similarly, a British broadcasting company ruled  Kuenssberg’s report published in November. And broke the broadcaster’s impartiality and accuracy guidelines. Whereas it featured an interview on BB News at six due to viewer complaints. Likewise, she was into criticism for her portrayal of Omar Salem. In September 2019 Kuenssberg received Omar Salem, a father who resists Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the NHS, as “a Labour activist”. Moreover, Salem defended Kuenssberg by the statement that she was doing her job “without fear or favor. Likewise, Kuenssberg was accused of bias again in 2019 during the United Kingdom general election. She was into different allegations and criticisms for Tweeting political advisors and incorrectly tweeting  Labour activists.

BodyGuard

She was protected by security guards at the Labour Party conference. She was mocked by the labor supported and targeted by online abuses and threats so  BBC has given her permission to access a bodyguard. However, In 2017 bodyguards. The bodyguard also accompanied her to the Conservative Party conference in  Manchester.

Laura Kuenssberg – Net Worth 2024

Moving towards her earnings, she is famous in the media as a journalist. Laura has an estimated net worth of around $1.5 million. Some online sources claimed that he earns a salary of 200k-250k pounds per year on the BBC which is $260k-326k. Similarly, he has earned much from his income which can fulfill his needs.

Is Laura Kuenssberg dating or married?

Talking about his love life, she is a happily married person. She married management consultant James Kelly in London. Currently, they haven’t given birth to a child but they are planning to have children soon.

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Caption: Laura Kuenssberg with her husband
source: Daily express

Body Measurements

Laura Kuenssberg is a beautiful woman with a smart personality. This amazing person is tall. However, there is no more information regarding his body measurements such as height, weight, dress size, bra size, etc. Likewise, he has short blonde hair with a pair of brown color eyes.

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Caption: Laura posing for a photo
source: dailymail

Laura Kuenssberg – Social Media

Regarding his social media platforms, Laura is quite active on Facebook, and Twitter. He is famous on Twitter @bbclaurak with more than 1.2 million followers. Similarly, he is famous on Facebook with the user name @lauraKuenssberg with more than 15.1k followers.