Alex Crawford
Special Correspondent
Alex Crawford OBE is Special Correspondent for Sky News and a three-times winner of the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year award. Alex is based in South Africa and reports 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.
Alex was awarded the OBE in the Queen's, 2012, New Year honours list.
Alex was the first reporter to broadcast live from Green Square as rebel forces took over Tripoli. Arriving in the capital on the back of a truck with a rebel convoy, Alex’s reports were broadcast to the world via a manually operated satellite signal and a camera plugged into the truck's cigarette lighter socket.
Alex and her team were the only journalists to get inside the besieged town of Zawiyah when it was attacked by pro-Gaddafi forces. It was this report that was credited with largely being responsible for the UN agreement to a no-fly zone over Libya.
Following her reports on the Mumbai terror attacks from outside the Taj Hotel in November 2008, coming under fire live on air, Sky News was shortlisted for a Bafta and won the coveted international Golden Nymph award for News Coverage.
Her work has been recognised by the Foreign Press Association in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She has been cited in the Bayeux War Correspondents Awards for her reports from hostile environments every year since 2007.
Alex is married and has four children.
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3:54pm UK, Wednesday May 16, 2012 Alex Crawford, special correspondent Charles Taylor, the first African leader to stand trial and be convicted of war crimes, has told judges that he and his family are also victims of the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone
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3:27pm UK, Monday April 30, 2012 Alex Crawford, special correspondent, on the Sudan border Thousands of troops are building up on the new border between Sudan and South Sudan in preparation for all-out war - and aid agencies are scrambling to provide for
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2011 was the worst year on record for ivory seizures 3:33am UK, Tuesday March 20, 2012 Alex Crawford, special correspondent Interpol is carrying out the largest anti-elephant ivory poaching operation ever mounted. Wildlife agents in 14 different African
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1:07pm UK, Thursday March 08, 2012 Annie Lennox is helping women across the globe celebrate the centenary of International Women's Day (IWD). The Eurythmics star is hosting the Women of the World festival in London, showcasing the power of British female
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9:53am UK, Sunday February 26, 2012 Nelson Mandela, who was admitted to hospital this weekend for abdominal pain, underwent laparoscopy and is doing "fine," South Africa's defence minister Lindiwe Sisulu has said. The former South African president had a
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4:04pm UK, Saturday February 25, 2012 Alex Crawford, Africa correspondent Former South African president Nelson Mandela is said to be in a "satisfactory condition" following treatment for an abdominal complaint. The 93-year-old was admitted to hospital o
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It is the fourth RTS journalist of the year award for Alex Crawford and her third in a row 3:49am UK, Thursday February 23, 2012 Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford has been named TV journalist of the year for the third year in a row at the pre
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Sky's Alex Crawford reports from Idlib where armed civilians and army defectors are patrolling the streets 1:30pm UK, Tuesday February 14, 2012 At least six people have died in the besieged Syrian city of Homs after it came under renewed attack by regime
Blogs
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Posted by - Alex Crawford .How can a situation which is so dire also be so inspiring? In our few days in Swaziland we met mothers with HIV-Aids. We saw grandmothers with the disease cuddling their grand-babies who also have the virus. We met young women
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#southafrica Reporters gasp as Malema says -several times - he will lead the ANC some day
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