Field Correspondents
Field Correspondents
Mohammed Adow |
Mohammed Adow (Africa)
has over 10 years of experience reporting from across Africa and joined Al Jazeera English from the BBC World Service where he held several different positions covering Africa for eight years.Hashem Ahelbarra |
Hashem Ahelbarra (Doha) joined Al Jazeera from Abu Dhabi Television where he was a news presenter and senior reporter, after roles with the London based ANN and the Moroccan channel 2M.
Rula Amin |
Rula Amin (Middle East) has special experience in reporting on the Middle East for international television news organisations CNN, MBC and Worldwide Television News (WTN).
Neave Barker (Moscow) joined Al Jazeera English after reporting extensively across Eastern Europe, the Caucuses and beyond for Russian State Television.
In Paris, he covered the critical days leading up to a weekend of student riots against new employment laws for young people. While in The Hague, Neave covered the death of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and the first stage of his last journey home for burial.
Neave has interviewed a range of key figures on a number of defining issues: former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, the UN special envoy to Kosovo Marti Ahtissari, and the prime ministers of Hungary
and Russia.
During the Russia-Georgia conflict of August 2008, Neave provided up-to-the minute analysis of diplomatic developments
from the Russian capital.
He was short-listed for an International Broadcasters Association Award for his work on Moscow’s homeless.
James Bays |
Tony Birtley |
Melissa Chan |
Melissa Chan (Beijing) began her journalism experience at CNN’s main Asia hub in Hong Kong. There, she helped cover some of Hong Kong’s earliest demonstrations in the post-handover period, as well as the historic summit between South Korea’s Kim Dae-Jung and North Korea’s Kim Jong Il.
She has also spent time at CNN’s Havana bureau. In the United States, she worked at ABC News in New York City, eventually joining the team that produced the national evening newscast, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. She was also with ABC News in London at the time of the bombings.
In Asia, she has worked for organisations such as ABC News, ABC Radio, CBS News, the Voice of America, and Star News Asia.Tony Cheng |
Owen, who was one of the first journalists reporting live from the scene of the 9/11 attacks in New York, has covered the war in Iraq from Baghdad, the rise of Vladimir Putin from Moscow, and the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George Bush from across the US. He has also reported extensively across Europe and Russia.
Alan Fisher |
Mike Hanna |
international correspondent based in Frankfurt and in 1993 opened CNN’s first Johannesburg bureau.
Before joining CNN Mike worked for ITN’s Channel Four News for 10 years, during which time he received four British Academy awards and several Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards as part of the Channel Four News team.
David Hawkins |
David was correspondent for CBS based in Tel Aviv from 2000 to 2006, a role in which he reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was the first into Jenin during the Israeli siege there in 2002.
David also interviewed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and covered the funeral of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. In addition, David covered the war in Iraq and was the first western reporter to interview Iraqi insurgents fighting US troops.
Previously as CBS News’s Moscow correspondent (1999-2000), David reported for virtually all of its hard news broadcasts on Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, the Mir space station, Kremlin corruption scandals and the war in Chechnya, among many stories.
Jonah Hull |
Kamal Hyder |
Kamal Hyder (Islamabad) has unique experience of reporting with CNN, AVT Khyber and for international print and broadcast media.
Amr El-Kahky |
Zeina Khodr |
Based in Doha with Al Jazeera’s Arabic Channel, Zeina worked for the network’s English-language website and as a field producer for Nekta Sekhana (Hot Spots), the regular one-hour documentary programme.
Zeina has extensive experience of reporting on major stories across the region – a career highlight was her coverage of the 16-day war involving Israel and Lebanon in 1996 and the occupation of southern Lebanon.
With CNN’s World Report Zeina won the 1998 Best Feature Award for her story on a traditional wedding in Baalbeck and in 1999 she was nominated for Best Political Story for her report on Israel’s annexation of the village of Arnoun.
Kalay Maistry |
Kalay Maistry (Southern Africa) has over 15 years of experience in journalism from roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and with South Africa’s eTV, Radio 702, and Capital Radio.
As senior political reporter with the SABC, Kalay covered major African stories such as the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial, Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections 2005, parliamentary elections – Botswana 2004, political reaction to South Africa’s winning bid to stage the 2010 World Cup, South Africa’s 2004 general election, the official visit of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and of IMF managing director Rodrigo de Rato and President Thabo Mbeki’s 2003 state visit to Malaysia.
For eTV, South Africa’s first independent television station, Kalay reported on the Zimbabwean presidential election 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and on local reaction to the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2003, and to the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ayman Mohyeldin |
Ayman Mohyeldin (Doha) was a producer with CNN based in Baghdad for two years where he covered the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq. While there, he reported on the daily struggle of ordinary Iraqis and embedded with the US military to report on the Iraqi insurgency.
He was among the few international journalists allowed to observe and report on the US handover of Saddam Hussein to an Iraqi judge.
He has also produced exclusive reports from Libya where he was the first journalist to enter one of Libya’s nuclear research facilities. In Saudi Arabia during the Hajj, Ayman reported live on the stampede that killed over 200 pilgrims in Mecca.
Ayman began his journalism career working for the American network NBC in Washington where he covered the inauguration of US President George Bush, the September 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan. His work on a CNN documentary about daily life in Iraq was nominated for a highly prestigious American Emmy award.
Nazanine Moshiri |
Nazanine Moshiri (London) joined Al Jazeera English from ITV News where she was a presenter and reporter.
Nazanine has covered some of the biggest news stories in recent history, including the London bombings, the arrest of the July 21 bombers and the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
She also produced a series of in-depth reports from inside Iran which were broadcast on ITV News and CNN.
As a presenter she was the face of ITV’s Morning News and was a regular presenter of ITV’s London Today. Before joining ITV News, Nazanine was a reporter at BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, where she became the first broadcaster to interview Ian Huntley, her interview was used as evidence at his Old Bailey trial.
Haru Mutasa |
Haru Mutasa (Nairobi) has worked with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), CNN, Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Associated Press Television News (APTN) and the Star Sports Network.
Yvonne Ndege |
Yvonne Ndege (Africa) first discovered journalism as a work experience student at the BBC when she was just 14 years old. From then, she knew it was all she wanted to do.
Her broadcasting career began as a researcher on the BBC’s flagship investigative show Panorama where she worked on specials such as the 1998 bombings of US Embassy’ in Kenya and Tanzania. She then became a senior producer on BBC’s Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman.In 2003, Yvonne moved to on-air reporting where she worked for BBC Breakfast, BBC World and BBC Radio 4. Yvonne joined Al Jazeera English in 2007.
Lucia Newman |
Lucia Newman (Buenos Aires)
has 25 years of experience in television and journalism, which encompasses roles with the BBC, ARD, NBC, ABC, 7 Network, Sydney Morning Herald, Radio 2GB and CNN. An expert covering Latin America, before coming to Al Jazeera English, Lucia was most recently CNN’s Havana bureau chief and correspondent.Prior to her Cuban posting, she was CNN’s senior correspondent in Latin America, and bureau chief in Mexico from 1993-1997, Chile from 1989-1993, Nicaragua from 1985-1989 and Panama in 1987.
She has reported on the Contra war in Nicaragua, South America’s drug involvement and unrest in Panama under former dictator Manuel Noriega.
While based in Cuba, Lucia covered the 1998 Papal visit and the 1998 bomb attacks on Havana hotels, in addition to conducting several exclusive interviews with Cuban President Fidel Castro.
A recipient of many awards in journalism, in 2001 Lucia picked up the prestigious Edward R. Morrow Award for ‘sustained coverage of Elian Gonzalez’, the child at the centre of a heated custody and immigration battle in 2000 involving the Cuban and US governments.
Dan Nolan |
His travels with Al Jazeera have taken him to Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji where he covered the 2006 coup.
Dan also built experience in his time with Australia’s Channel 10, covering the London terrorist bombings from the English capital in July 2005, travelling to Copenhagen in May 2004 to cover the royal wedding of Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Australian commoner Mary Donaldson and filing stories from Athens in the lead-up to the Olympics in 2004.
Nour Odeh |
Al Jazeera English’s Nour Odeh (Gaza), has been covering all the events in the Palestinian territories for more than six years. Most recently, Nour edited and presented the English news bulletin for the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation.
Marga Ortigas |
Marga Ortigas (Manila)
has had roles as an international news field producer, editor and reporter with CNN International and at ABS-CBN 2 News and GMA7 News in the Philippines.Barnaby Phillips |
Barnaby Phillips (Europe)
has 15 years experience in television and radio journalism with the BBC, during which he also contributed to The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Economist.Rob Reynolds |
Rob Reynolds (Washington, DC)
has over 25 years experience in international television journalism from his work with CNN, NBC and CNBC.
Alireza Ronaghi |
Alireza Ronaghi (Tehran) chose an unusual route into journalism – he left school determined to be a doctor, but while studying medicine took up freelance journalism to earn some spare cash.
He qualified as a medical doctor in 1994, but realised news was his passion – so returned to college, this time to study journalism.
In 1999 he joined Japanese TV network NHK, and worked in their Tehran bureau for six years. In 2005 he moved to Reuters, and Alireza joined Al Jazeera English in February 2007.Jacky Rowland |
Jacky Rowland (Jerusalem)
is an internationally recognised television correspondent, with experience of covering conflicts in the Balkans and the Islamic world.She joins Al Jazeera from the BBC, where she held a number of high-profile foreign postings. She is probably best-known for her coverage of the former Yugoslavia.
In October 2000, she defied an expulsion order by the Serbian authorities, went into hiding, and emerged in time to cover the overthrow of the former president, Slobodan Milosevic.
Her reporting earned her a Royal Television Society Award in 2001. Jacky joined the BBC as a trainee in 1989.
In the subsequent 16 years, her career as a foreign correspondent took her to North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Russia, Afghanistan and the United States.
Mohamed Vall Salem |
He has covered major news events all over the world – from the Tsunami in Sri Lanka to a general election in India and the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He has produced two documentaries on the relation between oil resources and political conflicts in Sudan (the civil war in the south and Darfur).
Before joining Al Jazeera English he worked as political and cultural news editor with Al-Alam newspaper in Morocco. He holds a post graduate degree in English literature from Mohamed V University of Rabat, Morocco.
Kristen Saloomey |
Kristen Saloomey (New York)
has 15 years of news reporting from across the United States with NBC.Mariana Sanchez |
Mariana Sanchez (Caracas)
is a distinguished war correspondent. She has travelled the world covering major world events such as the war in Kosovo, the conflicts in East Timor and Macedonia, the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the ‘war on terrorism’ from both Pakistan and Afghanistan.Mark Seddon |
Mark Seddon (London)
has an wide and varied range of experience from his work as an editor, journalist, broadcaster, political adviser and commentator.Nick Spicer |
Nick Spicer (Washington DC)
has over 10 years of international reporting experience in Europe and the Middle East for National Public Radio, the BBC, CBC Television, and other major broadcasters and print publications. He has reported from most European countries, as well as Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Libya.He joined Al Jazeera English after spending three years in Moscow, reporting in English and French for Canada’s public television CBC/Radio-Canada. Before that he worked out of Paris for National Public Radio, covering France and European Union affairs.
During the buildup to the war in Iraq, Nick covered the transatlantic diplomatic crisis and events at Central Command in Doha, Qatar. He then traveled in Iraq to cover attempts to reconstruct the country and the nascent insurgency. Spicer holds an MA from France’s SciencesPo politics school, a degree in French Literature from the Sorbonne, and a BA in English Literature from Queen’s University at Kingston.
Step Vaessen |