Alex Crawford

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Alex Crawford
Born (1963-04-15) 15 April 1963 (age 61)
Nigeria
Nationality British
Occupation Foreign correspondent
Spouse(s) Richard Edmondson (4 children)

Alex Christine Crawford OBE (born 15 April 1963)[1] is a British journalist who currently works as a Special Correspondent for Sky News based in South Africa.[2][3][4]

Career

Crawford first worked in journalism at the Wokingham Times, completing a National Council for the Training of Journalists newspaper course in Newcastle while working there.

She subsequently worked for the BBC and for TV-am before joining Sky News when it was launched in 1989.[5][6][7] She began working as a foreign correspondent for Sky News in 2005.[8] Crawford has reported on the Gulf, the Middle East and more recently has covered the Arab Springs in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain,and Libya.[2]

She has been named Journalist of the Year on five occasions by the Royal Television Society and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to broadcast journalism.[2][3][4] Her work has been recognized by the Foreign Press Association in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She has also been cited by the Bayeux War Correspondents Awards for her reports from hostile environments for every year since 2007.[2]

Coverage of the Libyan civil war

Crawford covered the 2011 Libyan civil war. She was widely praised for her live on-scene reporting of the Battle of Tripoli. She was the first TV journalist to enter Libya with the rebels, becoming a face of the conflict.[8] She travelled with a rebel convoy into the heart of Tripoli, shooting direct live footage of the rebel advances, which reached Green Square with little resistance from pro-Gaddafi forces. She wore a helmet and bulletproof vest, stating that she did not feel in any danger, but wore them as a precaution against celebratory gunfire.[9][10][11][12][13][14] She also covered the raid of Bab al-Azizia live from outside the compound, and was one of the first journalists to go inside once the raid was over.

Coverage of the Northern Mali conflict

Crawford was active in covering the Northern Mali conflict from 15 January 2013 until the end of French military operations.[15] Her Sky News team was the first to enter Timbuktu after it was liberated by French forces.

Personal life

Crawford was born in Nigeria in 1963 to a Chinese mother and a Scottish father.[16] She was brought up in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe and educated at Cobham Hall School in Kent.[6][7][17]

She currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa with her husband, sports journalist Richard Edmondson, and four children.[8][18][19][20]

Publications

See also

References

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External links

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