Lyse Doucet wins 2017 Charles Wheeler Award

Presentation and lecture by distinguished broadcaster Kate Adie at Regent Street Cinema on Tuesday 27June 2017.

BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet has been named winner of this year’s prestigious British Journalism Review Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism. The Award is made each year in honour of one of the BBC’s most celebrated correspondents, the late Sir Charles Wheeler.

The annual award ceremony is hosted by the University of Westminster and will take place this year on 27 June at the University’s newly restored Regent Street Cinema. Presentation of the Award will be followed by a keynote speech from the distinguished broadcaster and author Kate Adie.

The Charles Wheeler Award, a collaboration between British Journalism Review and the University of Westminster, started in 2009 when the inaugural winner was Jeremy Paxman. It is presented each year by Sir Charles’ widow Lady Wheeler, accompanied by the Wheeler family.

Lyse Doucet began her BBC career reporting from west Africa in 1983, and for 15 years reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and across the Middle East . In 1999 she joined the BBC’s team of presenters on BBC World TV and World Service Radio. She played a key role in coverage of the Afghan and Iraq wars and was instrumental in the BBC’s reporting of the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Libya and Egypt as well as the Middle East conflict in Israel and Gaza. More recently, she has reported across the BBC on escalating conflicts, particularly in Syria. She has made two documentaries, Children of Syria (with Robin Barnwell, 2014) and Children of the Gaza War (with James Jones, 2015).

For further information or if you would like to attend, please contact:

Zsuzsanna Matyak

PR Officer, University of Westminster

Email: z.matyak1@westminster.ac.uk

Telephone:  020 7911 5862

A full list of BJR Charles Wheeler Award winners and speakers to date is given below.

                        Winner                                     Speaker

2009                Jeremy Paxman                       Mark Thompson

2010                Jeremy Bowen                         Boris Johnson

2011                Lindsey Hilsum                         Alastair Campbell

2012                Allan Little                                Alan Rusbridger

2013                Robin Lustig                             Harriet Harman

2014                Jon Snow                                 Robert Peston

2015                Alex Crawford                           Alan Yentob

2016                George Alagiah                          Sir Tom Stoppard