Stephen Sackur

Journalist

Stephen Sackur was born in Spilsby, England, United Kingdom on January 9th, 1964 and is the Journalist. At the age of 60, Stephen Sackur biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 9, 1964
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Spilsby, England, United Kingdom
Age
60 years old
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Profession
Television Presenter
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Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Harvard University
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Stephen Sackur Life

Stephen John Sackur (born 9 January 1964) is an English journalist who hosts HARDtalk, a current affairs analysis interview show on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

He is also the top Friday presenter of GMT on BBC World News.

He was a BBC foreign correspondent for fifteen years, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and a number of newspapers and magazines.

Early life and education

Sackur's uncle, Robert Sackur, a fisherman, and his wife Sallie Caley were born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Spilsby, Cambridge, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he obtained a BA honours degree in history and then joined Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Henry Fellow.

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Stephen Sackur Career

Career

Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990 he was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents. As a BBC Radio correspondent, Sackur reported on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990. During the Gulf War, he was part of a BBC team covering the conflict and spent eight weeks as an embedded journalist with the British Army. At the end of the war, he was the first correspondent to report the massacre of the retreating Iraqi army on the road leading out of Kuwait.

Sackur was based in Cairo, Egypt, between 1992 and 1995 as the BBC's correspondent in the Middle East and he later moved to Jerusalem in 1995 until 1997. He covered both the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the growth of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.

Between 1997 and 2002, he was appointed the BBC's correspondent in Washington and covered the Lewinsky scandal. He later covered the U.S. presidential election in 2000 and interviewed President George W. Bush. Sackur went back to Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein and was the first to report Iraq's mass graves of victims of the regime. He was also the moderator of BBC's worldwide broadcast of a debate on climate change with a panel of five world leaders from South Africa, the Maldives, Sweden, Australia and Mexico.

In 1991, he wrote On the Basra Road: Scenes from the Gulf War (London Review of Books).

In 2005, Sackur replaced veteran journalist Tim Sebastian as the regular host of the BBC's news programme HARDtalk. He has since interviewed prominent international personalities including President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, President Shimon Peres of Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, President Jalal Talabani of Iraq, Prime Mininister of Moldova Iurie Leanca, US vice-president Al Gore, former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates. He has also interviewed leading cultural figures including Gore Vidal, Slavoj Žižek, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Jordan Peterson and Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as Annie Lennox.

Sackur was named "International TV Personality of the Year" by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) in November 2010.

He was nominated as "Speech Broadcaster of the Year" at the Sony Radio Awards 2013.

In June 2017, Sackur was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of International Relations (DIR) by the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, and in July 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Warwick.

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In two days for speaking engagements, BBC veteran reporter John Simpson earned more than £20,000

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 9, 2022
In two days from appearing at speaking events outside the corporation in September, BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson raked in more than £20,000. Although only Mr Simpson, 78, was in the over £10k class, there were six journalists in the second highest category, '£5k-£10k'. Naga Munchetty (above center), a member of BBC Breakfast, was paid this amount to act as a host at the Business Women Awards, among those in this second highest category. When Amol Rajan (above right) appeared as a speaker for publication company Citywire, he earned his £10,000 to £10,000 price, as did HARDtalk host Stephen Sackur (below center) when he served as a moderator for 'Silicon Valley'. Huw Edwards (below right) made more than 50,000 on top of his large BBC salary in a month for this sort of outside work in a previous disclosure.