Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum (born 3 August 1958) is an English television journalist. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News,[1] and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian,[2] The New Statesman,[3] and Granta.[4]
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Her father is professor Cyril Hilsum, a physicist best known for research that helped form the basis of modern LCD technology. She attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls and the University of Exeter where she graduated with a degree in French and Spanish. [5]
[edit] Career
Hilsum started her working life as an NGO aid worker, working first for OXFAM in Central America and then UNICEF in Africa. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide started. She has reported from every continent other than Antarctica. She was in Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion, and covered the Fallujah assault in November 2004. She has reported extensively from Africa and the Middle East, and from 2006-8 was the Channel 4 News China Correspondent, based in Beijing. Most recently she reported from Alexandria and Cairo on the uprising in Egypt, and from eastern Libya on the 2011 revolt against Colonel Ghaddafi.
[edit] Awards
She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex in 2004 and has won several awards including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year, James Cameron Award, One World Broadcasting Trust award, Amnesty, Voice of the Viewer and Listener and the Charles Wheeler Award.
[edit] Reference
- ^ http://www.channel4.com/news/lindsey-hilsum
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2006/may/28/features.magazine17
- ^ http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/lindsey_hilsum
- ^ http://www.granta.com/Contributors/Lindsey-Hilsum
- ^ http://www.essex.ac.uk/honorary_graduates/or/2004/lindsey-hilsum-oration.aspx Lindsey Hilsum at University of Essex Honorary Graduates 2004. Retrieved 19 March 2011
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