Orla Guerin

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'''Orla Guerin''' [[MBE]] (born 15 May 1966) is an Irish correspondent currently working for [[BBC News]] based in [[Islamabad]]. She was previously an Africa correspondent and has also been a Middle East correspondent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/profiles/newsid_3234000/3234164.stm |title=BBC Profiles - Orla Guerin |publisher=BBC News |date=2003-11-24 |accessdate=2013-05-11}}</ref> She has reported from areas including the West Coast of the [[USA]], [[Kosovo]], the [[Republic of Macedonia]], the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] in northern [[Spain]], and [[Moscow]], where she covered the [[Russian submarine Kursk explosion|Kursk submarine disaster]] in 2000.

Guerin was born in [[Dublin]]. A journalism graduate from [[Dublin Institute of Technology]] (DIT), she qualified as a journalist in 1985 with a Certificate in Journalism from the College of Commerce in [[Dublin]]. She also holds a [[Master's degree]] in [[Film Studies]] from [[University College Dublin]] (UCD).

Guerin first came to attention as a journalist and foreign correspondent with [[RTÉ News and Current Affairs|RTÉ News]]. Guerin joined [[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]] (RTÉ) in 1987 and was their correspondent in [[Eastern Europe]] from 1990–1994, travelling widely and reporting from Eastern and [[Central Europe]], the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Yugoslavia]] and [[Sarajevo]]. Guerin's reports from Eastern Europe for [[RTÉ Radio]] won her a [[Jacob's Award]] in 1992.

She left RTÉ to run as a [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] candidate in [[European Parliament election, 1994 (Ireland)|the 1994 elections]] to the [[European Parliament]]. A political novice, Guerin had been hand-picked by then Labour Party leader [[Dick Spring]]. Even though she was not selected at the party convention, Spring insisted that she be added to the ballot. Vilified as a "parachute" candidate, she did not win a seat (although she did poll relatively well). She joined the BBC in 1995.

She was removed by BBC director general Mark Thompson as the BBC's Middle East correspondent after a 2005 trip to Israel,{{citation needed|date=February 2012}} and became the corporation's [[Africa]] correspondent, based in [[Johannesburg]] in 2006.

In 2003, Guerin married [[Reuters]] correspondent Michael Georgy. That same year she was awarded the News and Factual Award by Women in Film and Television UK.

==Accusation of bias==
In 2004, the Israeli government wrote to the BBC accusing Guerin of a "deep-seated bias against Israel" in a report on a teenage would-be suicide bomber. A year later the Muslim Council of Britain accused the BBC as a whole of ''pro''-Israeli bias.<ref>Caitlin Fitzsimmons [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/26/israel-british-media-bbc-history "Israel and the British media: a troubled history"], ''The Guardian'', 26 January 2009, retrieved 21 April 2009.</ref> Guerin remained as the BBC's Middle East correspondent until January 2006, when she became the Africa correspondent. She was replaced in the Middle East by BBC veteran Jeremy Bowen who announced that he would only refer to Israel and the Palestinians rather than Israel and Palestine. Former Director General of the BBC [[Greg Dyke]] wrote: "I have no doubt that the decision by the BBC to pull their Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin out of the region and send her to South Africa was part of the normal rotation of BBC news correspondents around the world. However it was pretty bad timing to announce it within days of Director General Mark Thompson's visit to Israel where he had a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister [[Ariel Sharon]]".<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/greg-dyke-on-broadcasting-519166.html "Greg Dyke On Broadcasting"], by Greg Dyke, ''The Independent'', 12 December 2005, retrieved 21 April 2009.</ref>

==Honours==
In 2002, she was awarded an [[honorary degree]] from the [[University of Essex]], [[England]] and won the Broadcaster of the Year Award from the [[London Press Club]]. She was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (Hons) for services to broadcasting. In 2009, she was awarded honorary degrees from both of Northern Ireland's universities, [[Queen's University Belfast]] and the [[University of Ulster]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Cromie |first=Claire |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/graduations/queens-university-of-belfast-graduations-july-6-2009-14386041.html |title=Queen's University of Belfast Graduations|publisher=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk |date=2009-07-06 |accessdate=2013-05-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/profiles/newsid_3234000/3234164.stm BBC press office profile of Orla Guerin] Retrieved 2011-11-21
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