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Alex Crawford (special correspondent for Sky News) was appointed an OBE for services to broadcast journalism in January 2012. In February, she was also awarded the Royal Television Society Television Journalist of the Year Award for the third straight year. This is the fourth time she has won this
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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. She also covered the raid of
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when it was launched in 1989. She began working as a foreign correspondent for Sky News in 2005. Crawford has reported on the Gulf, the Middle East, the
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which passes through the falls experiences very high or very low water levels, a fact that Crawford was accused of not including in her report.
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military operation, Crawford and her media team, including Sky producer Martin Vowles and two civilian activists came under fire from
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Crawford lives in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband, sports journalist Richard Edmondson, and four children.
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from 15 January 2013 until the end of French military operations. Her Sky News team was the first to enter
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live from outside the compound, and was one of the first journalists to go inside once the raid was over.
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in 1962 to an English-Chinese mother and a Scottish father. She was brought up in Nigeria,
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War in Ukraine: President Zelenskyy warns 'millions could die' unless the West intervenes
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Ukraine Invasion: Civilians narrowly escape shelling in residential areas
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She has been named Journalist of the Year on five occasions by the
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in English, discussing the current state of the conflict.
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OBE

Surrey
Foreign correspondent
Sky News
OBE
Sky News
Turkey
Surrey
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Cobham Hall School
Kent
National Council for the Training of Journalists
Newcastle
BBC
TV-am
Sky News
Arab Spring
Tunisia
Egypt
Bahrain
Libya
Russo-Ukrainian War
Royal Television Society
Order of the British Empire

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