Lynette Lithgow
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Lynette Pearson known professionally as Lynette Lithgow), was a Trinidad
-born, British
-based newsreader and journalist who is best remembered for her career as a newsreader for BBC News
.
Her first media job was as a broadcaster for Radio Television Brunei
during the 1970s
.
During the 1980s
, she moved to Britain and after working as a presenter for Midlands Today
and continuity announcer for Granada Television
, she moved to London
as a newsreader for the national BBC News in 1988. She joined the BBC's world television service on its launch in 1991 and also presented BBC 2's Newsview.
She quit the BBC
in 1996 on gaining a law degree from Oxford University, and moved to the business news channel CNBC Asia
(based in Singapore
), where she worked until her murder in Trinidad in December 2001; she was shot dead along with her 83-year-old mother Maggie Lee and her British brother-in-law John Cropper at the family home in Port of Spain
.
She was married twice and had two children from her first marriage. Her second marriage, from 1998 until her death, was to Dominic Pearson.
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
-born, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
-based newsreader and journalist who is best remembered for her career as a newsreader for BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
.
Her first media job was as a broadcaster for Radio Television Brunei
Radio Television Brunei
Radio Televisyen Brunei is the state broadcaster of Brunei. Radio Brunei made its first broadcast on 2 May 1957, with a Television service starting in 1 March 1975...
during the 1970s
1970s
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.
During the 1980s
1980s
File:1980s decade montage.png|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall in...
, she moved to Britain and after working as a presenter for Midlands Today
Midlands Today
Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the West Midlands region, which covers the north of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands county...
and continuity announcer for Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
, she moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
as a newsreader for the national BBC News in 1988. She joined the BBC's world television service on its launch in 1991 and also presented BBC 2's Newsview.
She quit the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
in 1996 on gaining a law degree from Oxford University, and moved to the business news channel CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....
(based in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
), where she worked until her murder in Trinidad in December 2001; she was shot dead along with her 83-year-old mother Maggie Lee and her British brother-in-law John Cropper at the family home in Port of Spain
Port of Spain
Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...
.
She was married twice and had two children from her first marriage. Her second marriage, from 1998 until her death, was to Dominic Pearson.
External links
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1711534.stm
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lynette-lithgow-729592.html