Ann Leslie
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| Dame Ann Leslie | |
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| Born | Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie 28 January 1941 Rawalpindi, British India |
| Education | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Other names | Dame Ann Leslie |
| Title | DBE |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Fletcher (1969-present) |
| Children | 1 Daughter |
| Notable credit(s) | Daily Mail |
Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie DBE (born 28 January 1941, Rawalpindi, British India)[1] is a British journalist who writes for the Daily Mail.
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[edit] Education
Leslie spent her early years in India and Pakistan, before being educated in India and England, where she attended the Presentation Convent School in Matlock, Derbyshire and St Leonards-Mayfield School, East Sussex. She went on, two years later, to attend Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
[edit] Career
Her first job in journalism was at the Daily Express (Manchester) in 1962.[2] Leslie moved to the Daily Mail in 1967. She has interviewed major film stars, entertainers and political figures and has reported on numerous wars, civil conflicts and political stories in around 70 countries. Significant events on which she reported include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela's final walk to freedom. At the Reuters/Press Gazette launch of the Newspaper Hall of Fame she was named as one of the most influential journalists of the last forty years. In David Randall’s The Great Reporters (celebrating the 13 best British and American journalists of all time) she is profiled as "the most versatile reporter ever".
[edit] Awards
Leslie has won nine British Press Awards and has won two Lifetime Achievemnt Awards. In 1999 she was awarded the prestigious James Cameron Award for international reporting. She was created a DBE on 30 December 2006 for her "services to journalism".
She is a regular current affairs broadcaster on the BBC (Question Time, Any Questions), Sky News and international broadcasting organisations.
[edit] References
- ^ Debrett's biodata
- ^ "The Indestructible Journos" The Independent, 12 June 2008. Retrieved on 20 October 2008.
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