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Alexandra Christine Crawford, (born 15 April 1962) is a British journalist who currently works as a Special Correspondent for Sky News based in
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.


Biography

Crawford was born in Surrey in 1962 to an English-Chinese mother and a Scottish father. She was brought up in Nigeria,
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and
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...
and educated at
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in
Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
. Crawford first worked in journalism at the ''Wokingham Times'', completing a
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newspaper course in
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while working there. She subsequently worked for the
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and for
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before joining Sky News 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
Arab Spring The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and econo ...
uprisings in
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,
Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
,
Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
and
Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
and more recently the
Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...
. 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 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to broadcast journalism. 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.


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. 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. 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. Her Sky News team was the first to enter
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after it was liberated by French forces.


Coverage of the Syrian Civil War

In April 2019, amid the ''Dawn of Idlib'' military operation, Crawford and her media team, including Sky producer Martin Vowles and two civilian activists came under fire from Syrian government forces in the contested village of
Hbit Hbit ( ar, الهبيط, sometimes spelled Hobait, al-Hubait or al-Habit) is a Syrian town located in Khan Shaykhun Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hbit had a populatio ...
in the northern Idlib Governorate. Crawford said, "we were spotted by a military drone and then repeatedly shot at with what we believe were 125mm shells probably fired from a
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Russian battle tank". Bilal Abdul Kareem, an activist from New York, who had been acting as Crawford's guide was injured in the shelling by
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and taken to
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for medical treatment.


Coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Crawford currently covers the ongoing
Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
, having begun 5 March 2022. On 9 March Alex Crawford interviewed Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
in English, discussing the current state of the conflict.


Personal life

Crawford lives in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband, sports journalist Richard Edmondson, and four children.


Controversy

In 2015, Crawford reported that the mighty
Victoria Falls Victoria Falls ( Lozi: ''Mosi-oa-Tunya'', "The Smoke That Thunders"; Tonga: ''Shungu Namutitima'', "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and anim ...
, separating the nations of
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and
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...
was drying up. Tourism promoters and local leaders in both Zimbabwe and Zambia accused Crawford for being an alarmist and 'creating the news she reported on', by insisting on what the interviewees said in her report. Every 10 years or so, 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


Publications

*''Colonel Gaddafi's Hat''. London: Collins, 2012. *''How to Survive in a War Zone''. London: Collins, 2012.


See also

* War correspondent


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Alex 1962 births Living people British people of Chinese descent British television journalists Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Cobham Hall School WFTV Award winners British women television journalists Sky News newsreaders and journalists