Alastair Leithead
| Alastair Malcolm Leithead | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 January 1972 Amersham |
| Education | University of Manchester |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC News |
Alastair Leithead is a British journalist working as a foreign correspondent for the BBC. Leithead is currently based in Nairobi and works across all BBC News outlets.
Early life
Alastair Malcolm Leithead was born in Amersham to Arthur Leithead, a security manager, and Edna Leithead (née Mooney), a teacher in private education. He was raised in Blaydon-on-Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.[1] He then went to the University of Manchester to study geography.[2]
Early career
After leaving University, Leithead worked at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle before joining BBC Radio Newcastle. Later he worked as a news producer in London.
Foreign reporting
As a foreign correspondent, Leithead has been based in Africa and Asia before moving to Kabul. There he covered the war in Afghanistan. Leithead has reported from a refugee camp in South Sudan. More recently, he has been based in Los Angeles before being re-located to Kenya as the BBC's Africa Correspondent in July 2015.[3]
Awards
Leithead won the 2007 Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents Television Award for his war reporting. In 2005/6 he was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society's TV Journalism Award, and in 2008 he was shortlisted for a BAFTA for best news coverage.
References
- ↑ , Giving the gift of education
- ↑ , Why I support RGS Bursaries.
- ↑ Leithead, Alistair. "Leithead's personal Twitter page". Twitter. Retrieved 24 July 2015.