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Kate Adie

(1945) Journalist United Kingdom

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Kate Adie is a journalist from the United Kingdom, best known for Into danger.

Quick Facts About Kate Adie

Born: September 19, 1945
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Into danger

About Kate Adie

Kathryn Adie is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Mungo Park Medal Officer of the Order of the British Empire honorary master's degree Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Journalists Society of Editors Lifetime Achievement Award IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award

Quotes by Kate Adie

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but…

Calm

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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you…

Alive

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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Endless

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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where…

Camera

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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to…

Church

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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…

Appearance

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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am…

Danger

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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Any

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“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.”

Fear

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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job…

Any

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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have…

Authority

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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Helmet

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with…

Along

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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

Crime

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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we…

Believe

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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the…

Books

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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in…

Bosnia

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No two wars are identical.

Identical

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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Children

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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I…

Endless

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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Actually

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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Also

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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Democracy

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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances…

Advantage

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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists…

Contrary

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