David Shukman
David Roderick Shukman (born 30 May 1958, St Pancras, London, England) is Science Editor for BBC News.
His father was Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford,[1] and his mother was a priest of The Church of England, and also a Russian scholar of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian). He has a younger brother and sister. He attended the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, then read Geography at Durham University (Hatfield College), gaining a BA.
He worked at the Coventry Evening Telegraph from 1980–3 and joined the BBC in 1983. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985–7 (at a busy time in Northern Ireland's history), then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987–95. From 1995–9 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003. In 2003, he became an Environment and Science Correspondent. In January 2012 he was appointed as the BBC's first science editor.[2]
He married Jessica Pryce-Jones in August 1988 in Powys, Wales, and they have two sons (born December 1989 and April 1992) and one daughter, Kitty[3] (born November 1994).
He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, whom he is named after, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Poland, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom.[3]
Books
- Brown, Ben and Shukman, David, All Necessary Means : Inside the Gulf War, 1994
- Shukman, David, The Sorcerer's Challenge: Fears and Hopes for the Weapons of the Next Millennium, 1996
- Shukman, David, Tomorrow's War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons, 1996
- Shukman, David, Reporting Live from the End of the Word. Profile Books, 2010.
- Shukman, David, Reporting Live from the End of the World , 2011
- Shukman, David, An Iceberg As Big As Manhattan, 2011
See also
References
- ↑ "Harold Shukman". The Daily Telegraph (London). 25 September 2012.
- ↑ Plunkett, John (2012-01-16). "BBC names David Shukman as first science editor". London: The Guardian.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shukman, David (16 June 2012). "A Polish village's forgotten Jewish dead". British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- BBC biography at the Wayback Machine (archived April 24, 2009).
- Interview, Geographical magazine, Royal Geographical Society, June 2010.
- David Shukman at the Internet Movie Database.
- Fine dining on the front line, The Observer, November 2005.
