Full Name Barbara Plett Nationality British Children None Education Carleton University | Name Barbara Plett Employer BBC Role Journalist | |
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Born 1967 (age 47–48) Manitoba, Canada Occupation Journalist, News Editor, Presenter Spouse(s) Graham Usher (died 2013) Profiles | ||
Barbara plett ariadne bbc news 19 june 2012 reports on syrian violence
Barbara Plett is a Canadian-born UK journalist with experience in the Middle East and the UN. She has worked for the BBC in Jerusalem, Islamabad and the United Nations.
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- Barbara plett ariadne bbc news 19 june 2012 reports on syrian violence
- Education
- Personal life
- Career
- Yasser Arafat
- References
Education
Plett graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Personal life
Plett was married to Graham Usher, the former Jerusalem correspondent of The Economist magazine. He died on August 8, 2013, at age 54 of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Career
She joined the BBC as a freelancer from Cairo in 1995 and became its Middle East correspondent by 2000.
She then went on to cover the death of the Syrian President Hafez al Assad in 2000 and to do much reporting under siege in Ramallah in 2002. Her career took her to Iraq in 2003.
Plett worked as BBC correspondent in Jerusalem before being transferred to Islamabad in 2009. She was the BBC's United Nations correspondent since at least 2012
Yasser Arafat
During the BBC programme From Our Own Correspondent broadcast on 30 September 2004, Plett said she cried when she saw Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat being taken to hospital during his terminal illness. This led to suggestions that the BBC was biased.