Veronica Pedrosa
Veronica Pedrosa is a Filipino independent broadcast journalist, news presenter and moderator, based in London.[1]
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Career
Pedrosa began her career, in 1995, as a
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:[5]
Kuala Lumpur
Pedrosa was the lead news presenter at the Kuala Lumpur 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. [6][7][8]
- 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 Doha. Based at the main broadcast centre in Qatar, 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 Indonesia, 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 Bangkok correspondent, she filed stories from Thailand and throughout the South-East Asia region. In November 2013, she returned to her homeland of the Philippines, to cover the aftermath of the super-typhoon.
Awards
In 2004, Pedrosa was named Best News Anchor at the Asian Television Awards. [9][10]
Personal life
- Family
Pedrosa is the daughter of
Mrs. Navarro Pedrosa wrote a critical biography of the then-
- Education
Pedrosa was educated at
References
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicapedrosa [self-published source]
- ^ Accent and all answers the question what's a filipino 27 March 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ Why Veronica went back to CNN. 1 October 2000. Retrieved 2 February 2014
- ISBN 978-1433108655.
- ^ A new channel arrives
- ^ Al Jazeera English – About us – Presenters – Kuala Lumpur Archived 19 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Al-Jazeera says its English-language news channel will launch Nov. 15". Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
- ^ "BBC World dropped for al-Jazeera English in Israel". The Guardian. 13 December 2006. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023.
- ^ "News Presenters – Kuala Lumpur". Aljazeera Media Network. 4 September 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ Yap, Aby (10 March 2012). "Veronica Pedrosa: In the Right Place At the Right Time". Illustradolife. Illustrado Life. Retrieved 14 September 2015.