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Matthias Frei better known as Matt Frei (born 26 November 1963) is the BBC's Washington, D.C., correspondent and the presenter of BBC World News America.
[edit] Personal lifeHe was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany. His parents were refugees who left Silesia before it became part of Poland and settled in West Germany.[1] In 1973 he left Germany with his family and moved to the UK, when his father became a London correspondent for German radio.[1] He was educated at Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986. Frei is married and has four children.[2] [edit] CareerFrei joined the BBC shortly after graduation. After a year in the German Section of the World Service, he moved to English Language Current Affairs, where he worked for another year. In 1989, working as a stringer, he reported on the First Intifada in Jerusalem, then on the Gulf War as London Foreign Affairs correspondent. He took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1990 Frei took a holiday in Zimbabwe and persuaded aid worker friend Katty Kay to become a journalist.[3] From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.[4] After working as Southern Europe correspondent, he worked as Asia correspondent from 1997 to 2003, based in Hong Kong (taking up his post just before the handover to China) and later in Singapore.[5] Since 2003 he has been the BBC's Washington correspondent. In 2005, Frei reported from the centre of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 1 October 2007, Frei became the first presenter of the BBC World News one hour Washington-based news broadcast, BBC World News America, supported by correspondent Katty Kay. It currently airs on BBC News, BBC America, BBC World News and several PBS stations. For a week in July 2008, Frei presented the London based BBC News at Six on a relief basis. A year later on 27 July 2009, Matt returned to London again to present the evening bulletin (again as a relief presenter). Frei has presented his own BBC documentary on the life & times of the German capital, Berlin. It has run from the 14 November 2009.[6] [edit] Awards
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