Laura Kuenssberg

Laura Juliet Kuenssberg was born in the year 1976 as the daughter of a Scottish businessman Nick Kuenssberg and Sally Kuenssberg in Italy. She spent her childhood in Glasgow, with her brother, David Kuenssberg and sister, Joanna Kuenssberg. She went to school at a private girl’s school Laurel Park School.

Later she graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in history and took a journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She tied the knot with James Kelly, a management consultant who also studied at Edinburgh.

The couple currently lives in east London.

Kuenssberg started her career at a local radio and a cable television at her hometown Glasgow and moved from there to work at BBC North East and Cumbria in the March of 2000. During this time she was awarded a regional Royal Television Society award for her excellent work as a home affairs correspondent.

She was appointed chief political correspondent for BBC News and reported for BBC One bulletins, Daily Politics and BBC News. Her presence in the general election and the formation of a coalition government under David Cameron was so noteworthy that David Aaronvitch said that it was “Kuenssbergovision.”

Kuenssberg worked as the business editor of ITV News and on the 27th of August 2013, she made her debut as a co newscaster at News at Ten with Alastair Stewart. She left ITV and returned to BBC as their chief correspondent and anchor at Newsnight. She went on to join the Newsnight team on February 2014.

Kuenssberg achieved the milestone of the first woman to be BBC’s political editor in July 2015.

After the 2016 local elections, a petition for Kuenssberg’s dismissal was started on 38 Degrees blaming her to be more biased against the Labor Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. David Baabs, the executive director of 38 Degrees later withdrew the petition.

Despite facing many controversies, Kuenssberg has had a successful career. She won the Broadcaster of the Year in 2016 for her works in public understanding of politics at the June 2016 EU Referendum and subsequent developments. She was awarded the Journalist of the Year award at the British Journalism Awards in December 2016.

As a Broadcaster of the year award winning journalist, her social media fans and followers have rapidly grown over the years. She has gained fame and recognition because of her brilliant works as an anchor.

Available as @bbclaurak on Twitter, she has amassed 775 thousand followers and has tweeted 28.5 thousand times. She also possesses a facebook account where she isn’t mostly active but still her page has 7.4 thousand likes and 8.3 thousand followers.

Laura Kuenssberg’s exact salary details haven’t been disclosed to the press but we can assume that from her job, which is a BBC editor, whose salary ranges from $69000 to $75000.

As one of the most talented personalities in the Journalism industry, Kuenssber has earned not only fame but her bank balance has gone off the charts of a normal person as well. Her estimated net worth is around $2 million.