Lauren Taylor (journalist)

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Lauren Taylor (born 11 May 1970)^[1] is an English broadcast journalist, currently working for BBC News.^[2]

Education

Taylor was educated at the

Taylor worked for Al Jazeera English since its launch in 2006 till 2023. Initially, she was based at the main broadcast-centre, in Doha in Qatar, as a senior news anchor.

She worked primarily as a London anchor on the flagship programme Newshour, presenting news of events across Europe and also conducting live interviews for updates and breaking news. She used to return occasionally to Doha as a relief-anchor. Taylor was also seen on Al Jazeera America during that channel's simulcast of Newshour.

When based in Doha, Taylor also did stints as a field-correspondent, reporting on terrorism in Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco. She also worked in Iraq, as an embedded-journalist with a US army unit searching for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in Baghdad.

BBC News

Since December 2023, Taylor has worked as a news presenter and anchor on BBC News, broadcasting in more than 200 countries.

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