Jacky Rowland
Jacky Rowland | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | BBC foreign correspondent – Afghanistan & Kosovo, 2001 news event award, Royal Television Society Al Jazeera English correspondent in Jerusalem & Europe – Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting, 2011 International Media Awards |
Jacky Rowland is a former broadcast journalist. She was formerly a foreign correspondent with the BBC and a Senior Correspondent for Al Jazeera English. She has won awards for her reporting for both broadcasters.
Career
I really don't understand all the brouhaha about 'female war correspondents' this time round. I mean, haven't we already been there, done that? I remember 10 years ago, with Afghanistan after 9/11, all the magazines and newspapers were doing stories about women war correspondents. I was interviewed by Vanity Fair and various British newspapers. And now, it's like the woman war correspondent has only just been invented!
—Jacky Rowland, 2011[1]
BBC
Rowland first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1989, and joined the
Al Jazeera English
Rowland is an Al Jazeera English correspondent in Europe. Previously, she was based in Jerusalem, recruited from the BBC at the same time as ITN's David Chater "to fill key positions".[14] Reporting in the West Bank in 2009, she came under tear gas fire from the IDF,[15] and she reported under "highly dangerous conditions" from Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution in 2011.[16] She contributed to the 2011 book "How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone", giving the advice "Always carry a photograph of you with your children."[17] Rowland has also hosted studio-based interview-programmes.
She won Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting at the 2011 International Media Awards.[18]
Education
Rowland graduated in Modern Languages from St Anne's College, Oxford in 1986.[2][19]
References
- ^ Lavie, Yael (16 December 2011). "What's a nice girl like you doing in a war zone?". Haartez. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ a b BBC Worldwide: The BBC World Service Magazine, Issues 21–26. BBC World Service. 1994.
- ^ Peretz, Evgenia (June 2002). "The Girls at the Front". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Leonard, Tom (November 2001). "Radio man upstages the stars". Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ISBN 9781408818152.
- ^ "BBC scoops news awards". BBC News. 1 March 2001. Archived from the original on 18 January 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ISBN 9780761966609.
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- ^ a b Jones, Liz (31 May 2002). "I'm no pretty-faced bimbo". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2002.
- ^ Simons, Marlise (29 August 2002). "Reporter Testifies in Milosevic Case, Fueling Debate on Witnesses". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Black, Ian (29 August 2002). "BBC reporter stands up to Milosevic". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ISBN 9781134085446.
- ^ "'Yugoslavia not safe for me,' says journalist who testified". Press Gazette. 20 November 2002. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ISBN 9781135078706.
- ^ "IDF filmed aiming tear gas at Al-Jazeera reporter in West Bank". Haaretz. 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ Burrell, Ian (7 February 2011). "Al Jazeera denies talk of agendas as its cameras zoom in on Egypt". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 January 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ "Surviving the killing zone". Saudi Gazette. 22 May 2011. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ "2011 winners". International Media Awards. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ "Distinguished alumnae". St Anne's Website. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
External links
- Jacky Rowland on Twitter
- Jacky Rowland Profile on aljazeera.net
- Jacky Rowland receives International Media Award 2011, The Next Century Foundation