1. Jeremy Francis John Bowen was born on 6 February 1960 in Cardiff.
20 Facts About Jeremy Bowen
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Jeremy Bowen was educated at De La Salle School, Rumney, Cardiff High School, University College London and the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.
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Jeremy Bowen joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a war correspondent for much of his career, starting with El Salvador in 1989.
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Jeremy Bowen has reported from more than 70 countries, predominantly in the Middle East and the Balkans.
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Jeremy Bowen reported that the casualties were women, children and older men.
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Jeremy Bowen received a substantial sum for libel as a result.
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Jeremy Bowen reported from Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Bosnian War there, and from Kosovo during the 1999 conflict, during which he was robbed at gunpoint by bandits.
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Jeremy Bowen has been under fire on assignment a number of times.
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Jeremy Bowen was a guest host on the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You, and presented the BBC's 2001 three-part series Son of God, an investigation into the life of Jesus.
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Jeremy Bowen declined the chance to cover the 2003 invasion of Iraq from Baghdad.
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Jeremy Bowen became the BBC's first Middle East Editor when the position was created in June 2005 after the 2004 Balen Report on the BBC's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to provide a broader perspective on wider Middle East issues and to add context to the reporting of events on the ground.
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The BBC Trust accepted that for a claim that was found to be lacking in accuracy that Jeremy Bowen had been provided with the information by an authoritative source.
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Jeremy Bowen voiced opposition to the censure, calling it a result of a "campaign group" whom he called "the enemies of impartiality".
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In February 2011, Jeremy Bowen became the first British journalist to interview Muammar Gaddafi since the start of the 2011 Libyan civil war against him and the government.
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On 5 July 2013, Jeremy Bowen was reporting for the BBC on the protests in Egypt regarding the former President Morsi when he was shot in the head with shotgun pellets.
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Jeremy Bowen escaped without major injury, and was taken away by his colleagues and bandaged up.
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Jeremy Bowen was one of the few journalists inside Syria reporting on the civil war.
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Since March 2022, Jeremy Bowen has reported from Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Jeremy Bowen was the editor responsible for overseeing this coverage, and has been criticised for the BBC's reporting on the incident for saying that an Israeli airstrike "flattened" the hospital.
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On 1 April 2019 Jeremy Bowen announced that he had undergone treatment to remove a tumour in his bowel.