19 Facts About Alex Crawford

Alex Crawford was brought up in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe and educated at St John's Convent in Kitwe, Zambia and Chispite Junior and Chisipite Senior School in Harare, Zimbabwe and later at Cobham Hall School in Kent.

Alex Crawford first worked in journalism at the Wokingham Times, completing a National Council for the Training of Journalists newspaper course in Newcastle while working there.

Alex Crawford subsequently worked for the BBC and for TV-am before joining Sky News when it was launched in 1989.

Alex Crawford began working as a foreign correspondent for Sky News in 2005.

Alex Crawford has reported on the Gulf, the Middle East, the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya and more recently the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Alex Crawford has been named Journalist of the Year on five occasions by the Royal Television Society and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to broadcast journalism.

Alex Crawford's work has been recognized by the Foreign Press Association in 2007,2008,2009 and 2010.

Alex Crawford has been cited by the Bayeux War Correspondents Awards for her reports from hostile environments for every year since 2007.

Alex Crawford was widely praised for her live on-scene reporting of the Battle of Tripoli.

Alex Crawford was the first TV journalist to enter Libya with the rebels.

Alex Crawford travelled with a rebel convoy into the heart of Tripoli, shooting direct live footage of the rebel advances, which reached Green Square with little resistance from pro-Gaddafi forces.

Alex Crawford wore a helmet and bulletproof vest, stating that she did not feel in any danger, but wore them as a precaution against celebratory gunfire.

Alex Crawford covered the raid of Bab al-Azizia live from outside the compound, and was one of the first journalists to go inside once the raid was over.

Alex Crawford was active in covering the Northern Mali conflict from 15 January 2013 until the end of French military operations.

In 2015, Alex Crawford reported that the Victoria Falls, separating the nations of Zambia and Zimbabwe, was drying up.

Every 10 years or so, the Zambezi river which passes through the falls experiences very high or very low water levels, a fact that Alex Crawford was accused of not including in her report.

Alex Crawford said, "we were spotted by a military drone and then repeatedly shot at with what we believe were 125mm shells probably fired from a T-72 Russian battle tank".

Bilal Abdul Kareem, an activist from New York, who had been acting as Alex Crawford's guide was injured in the shelling by shrapnel and taken to Khan Shaykhun for medical treatment.

Alex Crawford currently covers the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, having begun 5 March 2022.