Alex Crawford
Alex Christine Crawford OBE (* 1963 ) is a British journalist for the British news channel Sky News , for which she currently works as a correspondent for the Middle East in Dubai .
She began her journalistic work at Wokingham Times , then moved to the BBC and finally in 1989 to Sky News . She has been named Journalist of the Year three times in a row by the Royal Television Society . She is married and has four children.
Alex Crawford became known through her live coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war . At the beginning of August 2011, she joined the associations of the National Transitional Council that had just captured az-Zawiya from the militias of the ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi . On the night of August 21, 2011, she accompanied these associations with their producer and two cameramen on their offensive on the Libyan capital Tripoli and was the first to send live images of the fighting and the entry of the troops into the city center on the green square .
Crawford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire at the 2012 New Years Eve .
Web links
- Andrew Hough: "Libya: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting" , telegraph.co.uk , August 22, 2011
- Janek Schmidt: "The Race to Tripoli" , sueddeutsche.de , 23 August 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ RTS Television Journalism Awards 2009/2010, rts.org.uk, accessed on August 23, 2011 ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ The Independent - Honors: Order of the British Empire, Civil - OBE of December 31, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crawford, Alex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crawford, Alex Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |