Background
Trevelyan was born in London, England, the oldest of three children.
Trevelyan was born in London, England, the oldest of three children.
Educated at Parliament Hill School in North London, Trevelyan graduated with a first class degree in politics from Bristol University.
She was the British Broadcasting Corporation"s United Nations correspondent from May 2006 until 2009. She then gained a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the University of Wales College, Cardiff, in 1991. She began her career as a general reporter for London Newspaper Group in 1991, on titles including the Hammersmith Chronicle.
She then joined Channel 4 as a researcher on A Week In Politics in 1992.
She moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1993, initially taking roles as a researcher for Breakfast News and as an assistant producer for Newsnight before becoming a reporter for On The Record in 1994, where she covered the Ireland Republican Army ceasefire and Northern Ireland peace process. In 1998, Trevelyan shifted her focus to political reporting, covering Westminster, the 2001 general election and the run-up to the invasion in Iraq.
From 2009-2012 Laura was a British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent based in New York, covering everything from the row over the proposed mosque at ground zero to Haiti"s cholera epidemic. After three years as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s New York correspondent, Trevelyan joined British Broadcasting Corporation World News America as an anchor/correspondent.
Since joining WNA, Laura has anchored live on location covering the Boston bombing, the Cleveland kidnapping rescue and the Oklahoma tornado.
Personal life.
She was a political correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News from 1999 and was based in London until her move to the United States in 2004 to cover the presidential election. From 2006-2009 Trevelyan covered the United Nations, traveling to Darfur, Congo, Burma and Sri Lanka and was the first journalist to interview Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
