Lindsey Hilsum International Editor
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor, and the author of Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution, an account of the fall of Colonel Gaddafi.
She also reported the "Arab Spring" from Egypt and Bahrain. She reported from Belgrade in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia, from Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion, and covered the Fallujah assault in November 2004. Her reports from Africa, the Middle East and Russia have earned her several awards. From 2006-8 she was the Channel 4 News China Correspondent, based in Beijing. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide started.
She has been with Channel 4 News since 1996.
The latest from Lindsey Hilsum
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Battling with the pre-book tour nerves
31 May 2012International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on her forthcoming US bok tour - and a bad case of Pre-Book Tour Nerves.
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The Dictator diminishes the haunting figure of Gaddafi
28 May 2012I went to see The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen's take on Gaddafi, ready to be offended, but in the end I just laughed. The plot was bonkers and the jokes variable, but after 18 months immersed in the h
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Austerity medication - does it cure or kill the patient?
23 May 2012"Maybe weżre going to hell," said Irene Lozano, an independent Deputy in the Spanish Assembly. "But if we do, weżll take Germany with us."
Lindsey's recommended reading
- Lindsey Hilsum: Equality on the frontline is the only way The Independent
- What can - and will - China do about North Korea? The New Yorker
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's amazing report embedded with the Taliban
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