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British news presenter
Sally Bundock
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Born
| Sally Elizabeth Jackson
1972 (age 51–52)
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Education
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Occupation(s)
| Chief Presenter, BBC News
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Spouse
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Paul Bundock
(
m.
1999; died
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Children
| 3
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Sally Elizabeth Bundock
(nee
Jackson
) (born 1972) is a British news chief presenter for
BBC News
,
[1]
who presents
BBC News
on
BBC One
and the
BBC News Channel
. She joined
World Business Report
in September 2002 and presented its early morning edition, programming viewed mostly by audiences in European and international markets. Bundock continues to present the 5am hour on BBC One, BBC World News and the BBC News channel and has done since the early 2000s, this has been called
The Briefing
but is now simply
BBC News
.
[2]
She now presents
Business Today
in the former
World Business Report
early morning slots.
Early life
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Bundock was born in 1972 in
Hertfordshire
and grew up in
Smeeton Westerby
,
Leicestershire
.
[3]
[4]
[5]
She has three sisters.
[6]
She was educated at
Robert Smyth School
and completed an undergraduate degree in public administration at the
Polytechnic of Wales
, then moved to London to obtain a postgraduate diploma in journalism at
City University London
.
[7]
[8]
Following the merger of BBC News and BBC World News she was appointed as one of the nine London based chief presenters, continuing to present
BBC News
on BBC One and the combined News Channel.
[9]
Career
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Bundock is a financial journalist and presenter who began covering business news in the mid-1990s when she worked for
Bloomberg
. Since then she has covered many momentous events including
World Economic Forums
,
G7
conferences and historic
EU Summits
. During 2007 she became a BBC news business news anchor for the breakfast news slot, often presenting with
Jonathan Charles
or
David Jessel
. She works at the BBC as a world news presenter, and is known to occasionally speak at media and journalistic events.
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Since 2017, she has been the solo anchor of the breakfast slot aimed at European, Middle Eastern and African audiences.
World Business Report
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World Business Report
was launched in September 2001 and offers a blend of news, business and sport to reflect the demands of the global business community. She joined the programme in September 2002, when it was a segment of
The World Today
. In the past she has also presented
World News Today
: Business Edition
, which later became
Business Live
in 2015,
[11]
and
Worklife
in 2019. With World Business Report ending in May 2024, Bundock became a main presenter on
Business Today
.
Personal life
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She married Paul Bundock, from
Durban
, South Africa
[12]
in 1999 in
Smeeton Westerby
,
Leicestershire
; he died in June 2017 from a rare form of cancer called
carcinoid tumors
.
[8]
[13]
The couple had three sons.
[14]
She lives in
Beaconsfield
,
Buckinghamshire
.
[10]
[15]
She is a Christian.
[16]
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