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24 July 2006 - Al Jazeera International, the new 24-hour English-language
news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, announced
today that they have appointed renowned correspondent Shiulie Ghosh
as news anchor at their Doha headquarters.
Shiulie joins a large team of diverse on-screen talent based around
the world at the channel's 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 channel's London broadcast centre.
Speaking on Shiulie's appointment from the channel's headquarters,
Director of 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."
"I'm thrilled to be joining Al Jazeera International and to
be part of this exciting television project which will balance the
information flow from South to North, bridging cultures for English
speakers around the world," said Shiulie Ghosh.
Shiulie 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, Shiulie 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.
Shiulie first joined ITV News as a general reporter in January 1998
and later spent three years as Home Affairs Editor of ITV News.
Shiulie 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.
Her journalistic career began in 1989 when she joined BBC Radio
Cleveland as a programme assistant. In 1990 she became a news trainee
at the BBC and went on to report for BBC's East Midlands Today.
By 1991 Shiulie was regularly presenting their half-hour news slot
- one of the youngest people ever to do so. In 1993 she joined the
BBC's Country File programme as a presenter and this was followed
by a move in 1995 to Newsroom South East as a reporter/presenter.
Shiulie was born in the UK and spent the early part of her childhood
in India with her family. When she was five the family returned
to the north-east of England where she was raised and educated.
She has a BA (Hons) Law degree from the University of Kent.
About Al Jazeera International
Al Jazeera International is the world's first English language
news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Broadcasting
from within the Middle East, looking outwards, Al Jazeera International
will set the news agenda and act as a bridge between cultures. With
unique access as the channel of reference for Middle East events,
and broadcast centres strategically placed around the world in Doha,
Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC, Al Jazeera International
will balance the information flow from South to North, providing
accurate, impartial and objective news for a global audience from
a grass roots level, giving voice to different perspectives from
under-reported regions around the world.
Al Jazeera International is building on the ground-breaking heritage
of its sister Arab-language channel - Al Jazeera, which was responsible
for changing the face of news within the Middle East, now extending
that fresh perspective from regional to global.
For further information please contact:
Doha: Charlotte Dent or Lana Khachan: +974 489 2320/1
Email: press.int@aljazeera.net
mailto: press.int@aljazeera.net
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