Alex Crawford

About Speaker Alex Crawford…

Four times winner of the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year award, Alex Crawford is Special Correspondent for Sky News. Based in South Africa, Alex reports from across the continent and is deployed to big stories around the world. Formerly based in Sky’s Dubai bureau, Alex has reported on the Gulf and the Middle East, most recently covering the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya. Before that she was based in India and reported on the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Mumbai terror attacks. During her career as a journalist, Alex has been arrested; detained, interrogated and faced live bullets, tear-gassing, rubber bullets, IEDs, and mortar shells. In December 2010 she was named Woman Journalist of the Year by Women in Film and Television, and again in 2011, she was awarded Achievement of the Year by Women in Film and Television for her live coverage entering Tripoli. In October 2011 Alex was awarded the James Cameron Memorial Award for ‘moral integrity and courage’ and in recognition of her outstanding contribution to journalism. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s 2011 New Year’s Honours list for services to journalism.