Name Reeta Chakrabarti Role Presenter | Siblings Lolita Chakrabarti | |
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Nieces Lila Lester, Jasmine Lester Similar People Lolita Chakrabarti, Shami Chakrabarti, Naga Munchetty, Clive Myrie, Jane Hill Born 12 December 1964 (age 55 years), Ealing, London, United Kingdom | ||
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Reeta Chakrabarti (born 12 December 1964) is a British news Journalist, presenter and Correspondent for BBC News.
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- Broadcasting today bbc news presenter reeta chakrabarti series 3
- Reeta chakrabarti bbc political correspondent returns to oxford
- Early life
- Journalism career
- Other work
- Personal life
- References
Reeta chakrabarti bbc political correspondent returns to oxford
Early life
Chakrabarti was born in Ealing, London to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the Calcutta International School in Kolkata.
She has a degree in English and French from Exeter College, Oxford, where she graduated in 1988, and she also spent a year in France while a student.
Journalism career
In 1994, Chakrabarti became a reporter for the Breakfast Programme on the newly launched BBC Radio 5 Live. 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 role as political correspondent for the BBC, working across a range of programmes in television and radio, reporting on politics for BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. In January 2011 she was the education correspondent for BBC News. In May 2014 she was appointed as presenter and reporter on BBC One.
Other work
Reeta has also chaired and hosted a number of corporate events, including the 2003 and 2004 Educational Television Awards Dinners for the Royal Television Society.
Personal life
Chakrabarti is married and lives in North London. She has three children. She is a fan of the poet John Keats and chose this as her specialist subject on the BBC television quiz Celebrity Mastermind broadcast on 22 December 2016.
Her interests include patronage of the Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS charity focusing 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.
Reeta is a Patron of Pan Intercultural Arts, a UK charity that uses the arts to empower marginalised young people and unlock their potential.