Background
Kay grew up in various Middle East countries, where her father was posted as a British diplomat.
Kay grew up in various Middle East countries, where her father was posted as a British diplomat.
She studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italian.
She is the lead anchor of British Broadcasting Corporation World News America and was previously the British Broadcasting Corporation News Washington correspondent from 2002. Until 2009 she also blogged at the website True/Slant and is a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women"s Media Foundation). After graduation, she briefly worked for the Bank of England.
Deciding a career in Economics was not for her, she left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe.
Kay joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service. She then returned to London to work for British Broadcasting Corporation World Service radio, before being posted to Tokyo for British Broadcasting Corporation News television in 1992 and then Washington, District of Columbia, in 1996.
Soon afterwards, she joined The Times news bureau, but returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation as a freelance journalist in 2002, based in the United States. From June 2004, Kay co-presented the British Broadcasting Corporation World news bulletins with Mike Embley in London, shown on 230 public broadcast-television stations throughout the United States and on British Broadcasting Corporation America.
From 1 October 2007, Kay became correspondent to presenter Matt Frei of British Broadcasting Corporation World"s one-hour Washington-based news broadcast, British Broadcasting Corporation World News America, it airs on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation America, and British Broadcasting Corporation World.
Kay also makes frequent appearances as a guest panelist on The Chris Matthews Show and Meet the Press on National Broadcasting Company, and in the past also appeared on Larry King Live on Cable News Network. She occasionally substitutes for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio.