Kate Adie Bio | Wiki
Kate Adie CBE DL is an English journalist. She served as Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003. During that time Kate reported from war zones around the world. She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
Kate’s career with the BBC began, after graduation, as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham. By 1976, she was a regional TV news reporter in Plymouth and Southampton, before a move to BBC national television news in 1979
Kate Adie Age
Kate was born on September 19, 1945, in Whitley Bay, United Kingdom. She is 77 years old.
Kate Adie Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1. 65 m).
Kate Adie Family
She was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland to her parents. Kate was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland pharmacist and his wife, John, and Maud Adie, and grew up there. She has a sibling named Dianora Bond. Her birth parents were Irish Catholics and she made contact with her birth family in 1993.
Kate established a loving relationship lasting more than 20 years with her birth mother ‘Babe’. She failed to trace her birth father John Kelly, or his family from Waterford, despite public appeals. She knows only that he had a brother, her blood uncle, Michael.
Kate Adie Partner
Kate is not married and she has never been rumored to be dating anyone in her life. In an interview with Elizabeth Grice in 2005, Kate revealed that she has never married and had no husband or children. Even though she has never been in love, Kate describes her personal life to be quite enjoyable.
Kate Adie Education
She had an independent school education at Sunderland Church High School. Later, Kate studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she obtained a degree in Scandinavian Studies and performed in several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. During her third year at Newcastle, she taught English in sub-arctic northern Sweden.
Kate Adie Books
The Kindness of Strangers. 2002.
Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War. 2003.
Nobody’s Child. 2005.
Into Danger: People Who Risk Their Lives for Work September 2008.
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One. September 2013
Kate Adie BBC News
Kate’s career with the BBC commenced after graduation, as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham. By 1976, she was a regional TV news reporter in Plymouth and Southampton, before a move to BBC national television news in 1979. She reported extensively for BBC News, including from the north London crime scenes of serial killer Dennis Nilsen, in 1983.
Kate was thereafter regularly dispatched to report on disasters and conflicts throughout the 1980s, including The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986, and the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. She was promoted to Chief News Correspondent in 1989 and held the role for fourteen years.
Kate Adie Radio | BBC Radio 4
In 2003 Kate retired from the BBC, where she had been Chief News Correspondent. Subsequently, she worked as a freelance journalist, where among other work she gives regular reports on Radio New Zealand, as a public speaker, as well as participating in many of the 500 iPlayer episodes of From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
Kate hosted two five-part series of Found, a Leopard Films production for BBC One, in 2005 and 2006. The series considered the life experiences of adults affected by adoption and what it must be like to start one’s life as a foundling.
Some of Kate’s colleagues at BBC include:
Lara Lewington – Presenter
Yalda Hakim – corespondent
Sharanjit Leyl – anchor
Mishal Husain – newsreader
Kate Adie Tiananmen Square
While working for BBC News, one of her most significant assignments was to report on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Kate was reportedly injured after being grazed by a bullet that had “shaved the skin off her arm”, as she ran through Tiananmen Square at the height of the protests.
Nearly thirty years later, she said that she and her team were the only crew out in the square, and so were able to witness “the massacre by the Chinese army of its own citizens in Beijing in 1989”. Major assignments followed in the Gulf War, the war in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and the war in Sierra Leone in 2000.
Kate Adie Salary
She works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. Therefore, she earns a decent income. Kate’s average salary is $85,480 per year.
Kate Adie Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Kate’s estimated net worth is 850,045.
Who Is Kate Adie
Kate Adie CBE DL is an English journalist. She served as Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003. During that time Kate reported from war zones around the world. She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and works as a freelance presenter with From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
Is Kate Adie Married
Kate is not married and she has never been rumored to be dating anyone in her life. In an interview with Elizabeth Grice in 2005, Kate revealed that she has never married and had no husband or children.