Sally Elizabeth Bundock (née Jackson) (born 1972) is a British news chief presenter for
BBC News
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, who presents ''BBC News'' on
BBC One
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and the
BBC News Channel
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. 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''. She now presents
Business Today in the former
''World Business Report'' early morning slots.
Early life
Bundock was born in 1972 in
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the ...
and grew up in
Smeeton Westerby
Smeeton Westerby is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, located south-east of Leicester, northeast of Saddington, south of Kibworth Harcourt, west of West Langton, and 500m north of the Grand ...
,
Leicestershire
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. She has three sisters. 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
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.
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.
Career
Bundock is a financial journalist and presenter who began covering business news in the mid-1990s when she worked for
Bloomberg
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. Since then she has covered many momentous events including
World Economic Forum
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s,
G7 conferences and historic
EU Summits. During 2007 she became a BBC World News World Business Report anchor for the breakfast news slot, often presenting with Jonathan Charles And
David Jessel
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Backgr ...
. She works at the BBC as a world news presenter, and is known to occasionally speak at media and journalistic events.
Since 2017, she has been the solo anchor of the breakfast slot aimed at European, Middle Eastern and African audiences.
''World Business Report''
''
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
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: Business Edition'', which later became ''Business Live'' in 2015, and ''
Worklife'' in 2019. With World Business Report ending in May 2024, Bundock became a main presenter on
Business Today.
Personal life
She married Paul Bundock, from
Durban
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Situated on the east coast of South ...
, South Africa in 1999 in
Smeeton Westerby
Smeeton Westerby is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, located south-east of Leicester, northeast of Saddington, south of Kibworth Harcourt, west of West Langton, and 500m north of the Grand ...
,
Leicestershire
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; he died in June 2017 from a rare form of cancer called
carcinoid tumors.
The couple had three sons. She lives in
Beaconsfield
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The ...
,
Buckinghamshire
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.
She is a Christian.
References
External links
World Business Report: Sally Bundockat
BBC Online
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TV Newsroom*
Video clips
BBC News in 2009{{DEFAULTSORT:Bundock, Sally
Living people
Alumni of City, University of London
Alumni of the University of South Wales
BBC Radio 5 Live presenters
BBC World News
British business and financial journalists
Mass media people from Hertfordshire
People from Harborough District
Date of birth missing (living people)
1972 births