Occupation Journalist | Role Journalist Name Alastair Leithead | |
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Education Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage Similar People Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards, Rupert Wingfield‑Hayes Profiles | ||
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Alastair Malcolm Leithead is a British journalist working as a foreign correspondent for the BBC. Leithead is currently based in Nairobi and works across all BBC News outlets.
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- Early life
- Early career
- Foreign reporting
- Awards
- References
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Early life
Alastair Leithead was born in Amersham to Arthur Leithead, a security manager, and Edna Leithead (née Mooney), a teacher in private education. He was raised in Blaydon-on-Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He then went to the University of Manchester to study geography.
Early career
After leaving University, Leithead worked at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle before joining BBC Radio Newcastle. Later he worked as a news producer in London.
Foreign reporting
As a foreign correspondent, Leithead has been based in Africa and Asia before moving to Kabul. There he covered the war in Afghanistan. Leithead has reported from a refugee camp in South Sudan. More recently, he has been based in Los Angeles before being re-located to Kenya as the BBC's Africa Correspondent in July 2015.
Awards
Leithead won the 2007 Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents Television Award for his war reporting. In 2005/6 he was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society's TV Journalism Award, and in 2008 he was shortlisted for a BAFTA for best news coverage.