BBC
News Anchor, Correspondent & Author
Ben Brown anchors BBC News 24 on weekdays, between
7.00 and 10.00pm. He was a BBC Special Correspondent
from January 1998 until April 2006, one of the BBC's
most experienced war correspondents - recently reporting
live from Beirut during the Lebanon/Israel conflict.
Ben has covered major domestic events such as the
Queen Mother's funeral and the firefighters' strike.
Ben
was born on 26 May 1960 and was brought up in
Ashford, Kent. He was educated at Sutton Valance
School and Keble College, Oxford. He then went
to the Cardiff Centre for Journalism Studies and
received a diploma with distinction.
After leaving college he joined Radio Clyde as
a reporter and in 1985 he became a reporter for
Radio City (Liverpool).
Ben
Brown joined Independent Radio News in 1986, covering
major stories from superpower summits to the Hungerford
massacre. He came to BBC Television News in July
1988 and was a Foreign Affairs Correspondent until
1991, reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and
the Gulf war, from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
In
1991 he was appointed Moscow Correspondent, where
he witnessed the final collapse of communism and
the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev.
He
was at the Russian Parliament when troops loyal
to President Yeltsin stormed it in 1993 and the
following year he was in Chechnya for the start
of the civil war.
His
coverage of that conflict won him several international
prizes, including the Bayeux War Correspondent
of the Year Award and the Golden Nymph Award from
the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
In
January 1995 Ben resumed his roving role as a
Foreign Affairs Correspondent based in London.
He
has covered the break up of Yugoslavia extensively,
reporting from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, where
his stories helped to secure several awards for
the BBC, including a BAFTA (British Academy of
Film and Television Award).
In
2000 Ben won a RTS (Royal Television Society)
award for his report from a white farm in Zimbabwe
that he was trapped inside whilst it was invaded
by armed militants.
In
2001 he won the Bayeux War Correspondent Award
for the second time for his coverage of the intifada
in Israel.
Publications:
The Battle For Iraq
All Necessary Means
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