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Stephen Evans (born c. 1955,

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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) is a journalist previously working for the

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as their correspondent in

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and

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. He now works at ''

The Canberra Times ''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...

''. He came to particular prominence in 2001 when he was inside the Twin Towers at the time they were struck in a terrorist attack.

Background

Evans was born in Cardiff and lived in

Bridgend Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge ...

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. He studied Economics at

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and, in 1983, joined the BBC at

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. He became Welsh TV reporter of the Year in 1988 whilst working for HTV. He subsequently became the BBC's industry correspondent.

BBC correspondent

In 2001 Evans became the BBC's North America business correspondent. On the morning of September 11, 2001 he was sitting in the ground floor foyer of the South Tower of the

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in New York, waiting to report on a meeting, when the North Tower was hit by a passenger airliner in the

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terrorist attack. He described hearing a "huge bang" like "like somebody dropped a skip full of rubbish" followed by "two or three similar huge explosions". The South Tower shook and Evans left to find a telephone to contact the BBC newsroom. Evans became the main BBC reporter covering the unfolding events in New York. Evans became the BBC's

correspondent in 2010 and subsequently their

correspondent in 2014. In 2017 he moved to

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after marrying an Australian woman. He worked as Senior Journalist, reporting on local community news at the ''

Glen Innes Examiner The ''Glen Innes Examiner'', previously published as the ''Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser'', is an English language newspaper published bi-weekly in Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. History Glen Innes is a rural town in the ...

''. In 2018, Evans joined the staff of ''The Canberra Times''.

References

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