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Encyclopedia > Alex Thomson

Alex Thomson is a UK television journalist and newscaster.


Alex Thomson was December 22, 1960. He was educated at University College, Oxford. He has worked for BBC television and radio in Northern Ireland. In addition, he has written books on India and the Gulf War. in 1997, he won the Home News Award at the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his reporting on Bloody Sunday. His current role is as television presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News, part of ITN. He has covered fifeteen wars as well as other major conflicts international while at ITN. University College (in full, the College of the Great Hall of the University, commonly known as University College in the University of Oxford, usually known by its derivative, Univ), is a contender for the claim to be the oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267 122/km² NUTS 1... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ... Bloody Sunday can refer to any of the following historical events (in chronological order): Bloody Sunday (1887), violence in London on 13 November 1887. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...


Thomson's partner is the investigative television reporter Sarah Spiller. They have two twin sons and live in Essex. Essex is a county in the East of England. ...


Reference

  • Alex Thomson biography from ITN

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Online NewsHour: Indonesia Earthquake Death Toll Reaches 300, Expected to Rise -- March 29, 2005 (699 words)
ALEX THOMSON: Others got the knock on the hotel door this time around in the middle of the night.
ALEX THOMSON: Warning: "This earthquake has the potential to generate a widely destructive tsunami in the ocean or seas near the earthquake.
ALEX THOMSON: Indian officials said they'd used everything from mobile phone message alerts through radio and TV to ringing temple bells, and they claimed it had been effective without causing panic.
Online NewsHour: The Afghan Parliamentary Elections -- September 20, 2005 (595 words)
ALEX THOMSON: Women, of course, vote separately in an election where a quarter of the 249 seats in the new parliament will be reserved for women.
ALEX THOMSON: Many talk of a political peace underpinning the physical regeneration and stability that you see here-- yesterday's halts of war in the valley, today's election poster display, new bridges for this famous highway linking northern to central Afghanistan.
ALEX THOMSON: Where the valley widens onto the Shamali plain, the American-backed Northern Alliance made their advance on Kabul four years back.
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