Sky News' Alex Crawford Recieves OBE in New Year Honours

Alex Crawford, Sky News' Special Correspondent, has been honoured with an OBE in the New Year Honours List for her services to Broadcast Journalism.

Alex joined Sky News more than twenty years ago when the channel was launched, and has been a foreign correspondent for the last six years. Three times winner of the RTS Journalist of the Year Award, Alex’s reporting of the Libyan conflict this year, was much lauded.

In March Alex and her team were the only journalists to report from the rebel held town of Zawiyah where they witnessed Gaddafi’s troops opening fire on unarmed protesting civilians. In August Alex returned to Zawiyah and there caught a lift with rebels on the back of a truck into Tripoli. Her live report was broadcast to viewers by a manually operated satellite signal and a camera plugged into a cigarette lighter charger.

During her career as a foreign correspondent Alex has reported from Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, including a period of time embedded with the Taliban.

Alex said: ‘I am staggered and honoured and can’t quite believe this is not a prank thought up by one of my more mischievous colleagues . . . TV news is never about just one person. Behind me and beside me are my fellow reporters, producers, camera crews, editors and directors. It’s a genuine team effort and this fantastic accolade is for all of us. ‘
 
John Ryley, Head of Sky News, commented: ‘I am enormously proud of all that Alex has achieved over her twenty plus years at Sky News. This honour is wholly deserved. Alex’s determination and bravery as a reporter is relentless and this also acts as a testament to journalism at its very best.’