Al Jazeera International ropes in ITV News' Shiulie Ghosh as news anchor
Indiantelevision.com
Team
(16
August 2006 7:00 pm)
MUMBAI:
The Doha based Al Jazeera International, the proposed 24-hour English-language
news and current affairs channel has appointed renowned correspondent Shiulie
Ghosh as news anchor.
Ghosh joins a large team of diverse on-screen
talent based around the world at the channels broadcast centres: from Ghida
Fakhry and Dave Marash at their Washington DC centre, to Veronica Pedrosa and
Teymoor Nabili in Kuala Lumpur through to Felicity Barr and Stephen Cole and at
the channels London broadcast centre, informs an official release.
Speaking on Ghoshs appointment, Al Jazeera International
director news Steve Clark said, I am pleased to have Shiulie on board. She
brings a wealth of experience in news reporting to the channel and is a great
addition to the team.
Ghosh joins Al Jazeera International from ITV News where she was a correspondent
and a presenter covering a range of major events around the world. Her reporting
from Thailand on the Asian tsunami was awarded the 2006 Alfred I. Dupont Columbia
News Broadcasting Award. During the conflict in Kosovo, Ghosh was based in southern
Italy, where she reported on the bombing missions flown by NATO crews. She secured
the first television report from the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible heading
for action off the coast of Montenegro. Post-conflict, she reported on the continuing
tensions in the divided town of Mitrovica.
She first joined
ITV News as a general reporter in January 1998 and later spent three years as
Home Affairs Editor of ITV News. She has covered a wide range of prominent domestic
stories for ITV News including the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, the May Day disturbances
and the death of the Queen Mother.
In 2001, Shiulie was
named Best Television News Journalist at the British Telecom Ethnic Multicultural
Media Awards.