Laura is an anchor of the BBC’s US newscast BBC World News America which broadcasts on our global 24 hour news channel BBC World News. Covering the big national and international stories from the BBC studio in Washington, Laura also anchors World News America on location when there’s a breaking story in the US – from tornadoes in Oklahoma to the Boston marathon bombings.

As a correspondent, Laura has reported for the BBC from around the world, covering humanitarian crises and diplomatic visits, interviewing leading newsmakers and public figures.

Laura moved to the US in 2004, and was the BBC’s UN correspondent from 2006 to 2009, where she covered diplomatic activity at United Nations HQ in New York, and its humanitarian and peacekeeping work in the field. She was deployed to Chad, Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri-Lanka, Kenya and Gaza. She travelled with the new UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on his first overseas trip, which was to Africa in January 2007. Immediately following the 2008/9 Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Laura went to Gaza with Mr Ban to see the aftermath.

She also covered the 2004 and 2008 US presidential races, and President George Bush’s visit to Africa in February 2008, reporting from Liberia, Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda.  She has reported extensively from Haiti, starting in 2006, then covering the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and the cholera epidemic.