Laura Trevelyan

Career Trevelyan began her career as a general reporter for London Newspaper Group in 1991, on titles including the Hammersmith Chronicle. She then joined Channel 4 as a researcher on A Week in Politics in 1992.

In March 2023, Trevelyan announced she would be stepping down from her position at the BBC after "thirty incredible years" to advocate for the Caribbean's reparatory justice agenda. Acting BBC executive Paul Royall thanked her for her "outstanding" contributions to the BBC. In 2025, Trevelyan was appointed Chancellor of Cardiff University, a ceremonial and ambassadorial role.

Reparations advocacy

Trevelyan's ancestors owned more than 1,000 slaves spread across six sugar plantations on Grenada, despite never setting foot on the Caribbean island. After the 1833 abolition of slavery in the British Empire, slave owners were compensated by the government for the loss of their property; the Trevelyans received £34,000 .

After contemplating how best to make amends, in February 2023 the Trevelyans went in person to make an official apology to the people of Grenada, meeting with Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. They also donated £100,000 in voluntary reparations, which went towards education projects, via CARICOM.

Other roles , Trevelyan was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Books Outside journalism, she has written the book A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World, published in 2006, on the history of the Trevelyan family including her ancestor Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet.

Her second book, The Winchester: The Gun That Built An American Dynasty, explores the family behind America's most famous firearm and was released in September 2016.

Personal life Trevelyan is married to James Goldston, former president of ABC News. They have three sons and live in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Live, on the BBC's coverage of the 2016 US Presidential Election, Trevelyan said she was about to become a US citizen; she was sworn in on 9 November, the day after Donald Trump won the presidential race.

In May 2023, Trevelyan stated that if the Irish government asked her family to pay compensation over the Irish famine they would consider the request, after accepting that her great, great, great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan was among those who "failed their people" while governing Ireland during the famine.