Lyse Doucet

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Lyse Doucet (born 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada) is a presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World television. Occasionally she reports for BBC Radio 4 or BBC television news but is almost unknown to the domestic British audience.

She is often deployed to cover special events such as the funeral of Yasser Arafat, reporting of the aftermath of the Tsunami from Tamil Nadu, India in 2004, and from Amman on the war in Iraq in 2003.

Lyse has a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours Degree from Queen's University at Kingston. Also, she has an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of New Brunswick. She joined the BBC in the early 1980s in West Africa, and then became the BBC's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem, and Afghanistan correspondent based in Kabul. She is now deployed to cover special events in the Middle East and Africa.

Away from News reporting, Lyse Doucet is a regular presenter of the BBC’s award winning interactive programme Have Your Say (previously Talking Point) broadcast on BBC World Service radio, BBC World Television and BBC Online.

[edit] Awards

In 2002 she was the only journalist to accompany the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai to his brother's wedding when an assassination attempt was made. She and her team were later nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for the exclusive coverage on the attempt. In 2003 she was awarded a Silver Sony Award for News Broadcaster of the Year for her interview with Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah.

[edit] Quotations

BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson describes her in his book 'News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World' as 'ebullient' and 'great fun'.

The above biography is based on information collected from BBC Websites and an interview with Lyse Doucet on Information Morning Saint John, CBC Radio.