Charles Wheeler Award Lecture
309 Regent St
Marylebone, London W1B 2HT
UK
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
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