Benjamin Hall (journalist)
Benjamin Hall | |
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 Benjamin Hall reports live on European migrant crisis for the Fox News Channel from the island of Lesbos. | |
| Born | July 23, 1982 London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Foreign Affairs Correspondent (Fox News Channel) |
| Website | http://www.foxnews.com/person/h/benjamin-hall.html#s=h-l |
Benjamin Hall is a British journalist who serves as foreign affairs correspondent for Fox News Channel based in London, England. He joined the network in July 2015.[1] He is also author of the book Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army, published by Hachette - 2015.
Career
Hall began his career as a journalist focusing on the Middle East. Since 2007, he has written from the frontlines for The New York Times, The Times of London and The Sunday Times, The Independent, The BBC, and other outlets, often as one of the first journalists on the ground.[2][3]
Over the last few years, Hall has travelled to Syria and Iraq repeatedly filing dispatches for BBC radio, Agence France Presse, Playboy, Vice News and the aforementioned publications — often from behind enemy lines and embedded with rebel and regime troops.[4]
Hall smuggled himself into Misrata, Libya during the height of the siege, and reported for Esquire Magazine, Channel 4 News, and others regarding Muammar Qaddafi’s indiscriminate shelling of the local population. In 2014 he embedded with UN troops during the siege of the Mogadishu parliament, writing for The Times…and has also reported from Egypt, Haiti, and Iran. He has been a jury member of the London Kurdish film festival.[5]
Early life
Hall grew up in London, as a dual citizen, holding both US and UK passports. He studied at Ampleforth College, City of London School, and Duke University, and received a BA from Richmond, The American International University in London. He received a post graduate diploma in television journalism from the University of the Arts, London. He has previously worked in the offices of the vice president of Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles and the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson in Washington, D.C.
References
- ^ "Benjamin Hall". Fox News. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ Benjamin Hall (2014-05-26). "Soldiers wipe out al-Shabaab gang who attacked MPs". The Times. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ "Kurdistan Contradicts Itself". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Hall, Benjamin (2011-04-18). "Libyan Rebel Military Strength - How Strong Is Libyan Rebel Military?". Esquire.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
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