Stephen Sackur

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Stephen John Sackur
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Born January 9, 1964
Spilsby, England
Education Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
Occupation Journalist
Notable credit(s) Journalist and Presenter of Hardtalk
Agent The BBC

Stephen John Sackur (January 9, 1964 - )[1] is a BBC journalist who presents HARDtalk, the current affairs interview programme on BBC World and BBC News 24.

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[edit] Life

Stephen Sackur was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, and studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[2] He is married to Zina Sabbagh[1] and has three children.[3]

[edit] Career

Stephen Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990 was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents.[2] As a BBC Radio correspondent, Stephen reported on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the re-unification of Germany in 1990.[2] During the Gulf War, he was part of a BBC team covering the conflict and spent eight weeks with the British Army. At the end of the war, he was the first correspondent to report the massacre of the retreating Iraqi army on the road leading out of Kuwait.[2] Stephen was based in Cairo, Egypt between 1992 and 1995 as the BBC's correspondent in the middle east and he later moved to Jerusalem in 1995 until 1997.[3] He covered both the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the growth of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.[2] Between 1997 and 2002, he was appointed the BBC's correspondent in Washington and covered the Lewinsky scandal and subsequent impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton. He later covered the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000 and interviewed President George W. Bush.[2] Stephen went back to Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein and was the first to report Iraq's mass graves of victims of the regime.[2]

[edit] HARDtalk

In 2004, Stephen Sackur replaced veteran journalist Tim Sebastian as the regular host of the BBC's news program HARDtalk, and some of his interviewees have included:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Stephen Sackur - Biography
  2. ^ a b c d e f g NewsWatch | Profiles | Stephen Sackur
  3. ^ a b BBC - Press Office - Stephen Sackur

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