Veronica Pedrosa is a Filipino independent broadcast journalist,

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and moderator, based in London.

Career

Pedrosa began her career, in 1995, as a

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with

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and then with

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.Why Veronica went back to CNN
1 October 2000. Retrieved 2 February 2014 She has also been a journalist with

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ''ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs'' and later ''ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs''), is the news and current affairs production and distribution divis ...

Al Jazeera English

Pedrosa was with Al Jazeera English in the run-up to its launch, and worked for the channel for six years full-time, from 2005 to 2011, and then as a freelance for a few years more. During that time she was based in the Asia-Pacific bureau, in Kuala Lumpur; at the main bureau, in Doha; and as a correspondent in the field, based primarily in Bangkok:

Kuala Lumpur

Pedrosa was the lead news presenter at the

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bureau throughout its life as a broadcast centre, from 2005 in the run-up to the station's launch, to the closure of the Malaysian broadcast centre, in 2010. ;Doha In 2013, she took a break from her work as a field journalist in the Far East to work as a relief news-anchor in

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. Based at the main broadcast centre in

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, she presented news-bulletins on the flagship programme ''Newshour'', but also appeared as the host of studio-based discussion programmes, such as the daily programme ''Inside Story'', and the more specialist weekly, ''Inside Syria''. She also hosted, from

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, an edition of the extended-interview strand ''Talk to Al Jazeera''. ;Bangkok In addition to her studio-work, Pedrosa was a respected field-correspondent for Al Jazeera English. As the

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correspondent, she filed stories from

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and throughout the South-East Asia region. In November 2013, she returned to her homeland of the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

, to cover the aftermath of the super-typhoon.

Awards

In 2004, Pedrosa was named Best News Anchor at the

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Personal life

;Family Pedrosa is the daughter of

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journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa. Mrs. Navarro Pedrosa wrote a critical biography of the then- First Lady

Imelda Marcos Imelda Romualdez Marcos (; born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who served as the First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power during the dictato ...

, during the Martial Law Era in the Philippines. This risked retribution and political persecution by President Ferdinand Marcos and his regime, so the family decided to go into voluntary exile, in London. Pedrosa was married from 1997 to 2017. ;Education Pedrosa was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School, in London, and at

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

. She graduated from

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in 1988, with an MA (Hons.) in English.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pedrosa, Veronica Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at St Paul's Girls' School Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Filipino expatriates in the United Kingdom Broadcast news analysts Filipino television news anchors CNN people BBC News people BBC newsreaders and journalists ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs people Al Jazeera people