Rebecca Pike
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Rebecca Pike is a British journalist currently Head of Digital Media at Liberty Global. Previously she worked as Radio and TV business presenter for the BBC.
Early life
[edit]Pike was born in Lewisham, London. She attended Bedales School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Career
[edit]Pike started her career at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton before moving to the Daily Telegraph. She joined the BBC as a News Trainee.[1]
She then became a business and economics reporter for the BBC.[2][3] She has worked as a reporter on a number of radio and TV news programmes, including the Today programme, Radio 4's Six O'Clock News, Radio 5 Live, BBC One's TV news bulletins,[1] BBC World Service[4] and the BBC News channel.[1]
In 2009 she worked as a presenter of Wake Up to Money on Radio 5 Live.[1]
In 2011 she appeared as the main overnight presenter on the BBC News channel and BBC World.
She started on Drivetime on Radio 2 in 2006, when Chris Evans began hosting the show.[1] She was nicknamed "Foxy" after the popular "Fox the Fox" feature, in which listeners were invited to try and 'outfox' her with difficult financial questions.[1] She also presented the "Innovation Slot" on the Drivetime programme on Friday at 18:30.[5] Pike left the BBC in December 2015.
In April 2016 Rebecca Pike was appointed Head of Digital Media at Liberty Global working with ex-BBC journalist and Boris Johnson's advisor Guto Harri.
In 2022 she was promoted to Vice-President of External Communications and Digital Media.
Personal life
[edit]Pike is half Chinese.[6] She is married with three children, a daughter and two sons, and lives in North-West London.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Rebecca Pike - Biography BBC Radio 2
- ^ Building industry targets women BBC News, 10 May 2001
- ^ Analysis: The future of rail maintenance BBC News, 27 October 2003
- ^ Learning English - Words in the News BBC Learning English, 8 April 2005
- ^ The Innovation Slot BBC Radio 2
- ^ "Revealed: The faces behind the voices". 16 March 2008.
External links
[edit]- Rebecca Pike Twitter