| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Celia Hatton |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Partner | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| What nationality is Celia Hatton? | She is a British News Correspondent and Presenter. |
| Children / No. of Kids | Atleast one. She had once tweeted about her eight-year-old in March 2021. |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | British |
| Is Celia Hatton Canadian? | No |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Based in London, Celia Hatton is a British News Correspondent and Presenter. Currently, she is the Asia Pacific Editor and Presenter for the BBC World Service.
- Before London, Celia worked as a Relief Presenter and Reporter in China and Canada. She is well known for her coverage of crucial stories emanating from Beijing.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Currently, there is little personal information available about Celia Hatton on the internet. She has no social media open to the public, except Twitter.
Early Life and Education :
- After graduating from a local high school in the UK, Celia enrolled at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelors’s degree in Political Studies.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Celia started her professional career as a freelance reporter in China for various television and radio programs. In the meantime, she also worked as the China Correspondent for the U.S. public radio program, Pacific Time.
- While stationed in Canada, Celia delivered reporting service for PBS Nightly Business Report, BBC World Service, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Additionally, she worked as a news writer and producer at City T.V. in Toronto, Canada.
- Since April 2003, Hatton has covered China and the surrounding regions on a part-time basis for CBS News. She was hired as a CBS News Correspondent on June 8, 2009. While working for CBS in China, Celia has provided reports from Shanghai and Beijing’s coastal metropolises, the southern factory belt, cancer villages in western China, and the ice festival held each year in the north.
- While working for CBS News, Celia travelled the length and breadth of Asia. Her wide-ranging reports include genetic cloning in South Korea, Mumbai terrorist attacks, the outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam, the earthquake on the island of Nias in Indonesia, and the devastating cyclone in Myanmar.
- Currently, Celia is working for BBC as a reporter and presenter. She wishes to return to Canada someday, though, as per her Twitter handle.
- In a tweet on August 9, 2020, Celia described her BBC media room as her “favourite place.” She had returned to work after COVID-19 lockdown procedures.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- On April 25, 2020, Celia wrote a column for BBC. She described Alibaba’s Jack Ma as a billionaire doing everything in his power to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. Celia also reported that the entrepreneur was sending face masks and ventilators to many remote places worldwide. She also viewed him as a driving force behind a widespread operation to ship medical supplies to 150+ countries.
- On December 4, 2014, Celia analysed in a BBC report the Chinese authority’s efforts to eliminate organ-harvesting from executed prisoners. She mentioned statistics to illustrate the situation better. As per Celia, Dr Huang was the first to speak out against the practice. But academic and political support means nothing without changing public perceptions. She quoted 79% of respondents in Guangzhou’s southern city believed organ donation to be a noble act.
- In November 2018, Celia described instant noodles as a compelling tale of modern food production. She said that this could be a default food for anyone short on money or time. With origins in post-war Japan sixty years ago, instant noodles are still very relevant in the contemporary era.
- While reporting for a BBC story on March 2nd, 2020, Celia revealed that children played a ‘coronavirus game’ in U.K. playgrounds. She further said that the game had been explained to a fellow parent by a pupil who said it involves being sent to the playground area “for the rest of lunchtime with no human rights.” Celia considered the story to be funny but also kind of heartbreaking.
- In a tweet posted on October 26, 2020, Celia reported that 6 American news organizations operating inside China were ordered to provide detailed information about their staff, finances, and real estate to Beijing within a week. She had worked for two of the bureaus on the list, ABC and Feature Story News. Celia guaranteed that Beijing already has this information and far more. She explained that foreign journalists in China were under more scrutiny than ever before. She described the move as a retaliatory move after the U.S. labelled 6 Chinese state media organizations as “foreign missions” and admitted that it was hard to know where this will stop.
- In a tweet on May 8, 2020, Celia talked about a huge personal loss for journalism in China, after the passing away of Chris Buckley. She described Chris as “one of the very best.” Buckley was an inspirational New York Times reporter stationed in Beijing.
- In a BBC podcast, Hatton interviewed the University of Maryland, China Program Co-Director at the Centre of Global Sustainability, Sha Yu, along with Steve Tsang, Director of China Institute at SOAS University of London, and Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. They discussed the Carbon Neutrality by 2060 goal set by the U.N. General Assembly in September 2020.
- In 2009, Sean McManus, President of CBS News and Sports, commended Celia for her outstanding journalism. He further added that Celia’s massive regional knowledge in China, her skill as a reporter, her reliable contacts, and her accurate insights are treasured asset for CBS News’ audiences.
- Celia was honoured with a Gracie Award from the Association of American Women in Television and Radio for passionate coverage of China’s Sichuan earthquake in 2008. The award-winning reports were aired on CBS Newspath, CBS Evening News, CBS Network Radio, and The Early Show.
Do you know Lili Wang who was BBC China desk in London from 1989 onwards and her husband Stephen Hallett (sister Elizabeth) who worked for ISB International School of Beijing in the 1980s? Their daughter is Sonya. I would love to be back in touch with them. I helped Philip Cunningham video the Chai Ling interview.
I last met Celia In Hamilton, Ontario when she was a child. She is now the spitting image of her Plymothian grandmother,