Rebecca Pike is a British journalist currently Head of Digital Media at

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. Previously she worked as Radio and TV business presenter for the

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Early life

Pike attended

Bedales Bedales School is a co-educational, boarding and day independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventio ...

School and

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, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Career

Pike started her career at the ''

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'' in

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before moving to the '' Daily Telegraph''. She joined the BBC as a News Trainee.Rebecca Pike - Biography
BBC Radio 2 She then became a business and economics reporter for the

. 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'',

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's TV news bulletins,

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and the

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. In 2009 she worked as a presenter of

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. In 2011 she appeared as the main overnight presenter on the

and

BBC World BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media an ...

. She started on ''Drivetime'' on Radio 2 in 2006, when Chris Evans began hosting the show. 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. She also presented the "Innovation Slot" on the ''Drivetime'' programme on Friday at 18:30. Pike left the BBC in December 2015. In April 2016 Rebecca Pike was appointed Head of Digital Media at ''

'' working with ex-BBC journalist and

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's advisor

Guto Harri Guto Harri (; born 8 July 1966) is a Welsh broadcaster, writer and strategic communications consultant. He most recently served as Downing Street Director of Communications, having been appointed by Boris Johnson in February 2022. Harri spent ...

. In 2022 she was promoted to Vice-President of External Communications and Digital Media.

Personal life

Pike is half Chinese. She is married with three children, a daughter and two sons, and lives in North-West London.

References

External links

Rebecca Pike
Twitter {{DEFAULTSORT:Pike, Rebecca Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists British reporters and correspondents British radio personalities People educated at Bedales School English people of Chinese descent Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 1971 births People from Sheffield