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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 · Page 2

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in…

Firsts

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I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part…

About

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I will never retire.

Never

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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Democracy

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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

Childhood

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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Book

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Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

Blessing

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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name…

Being famous

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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Heart

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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous…

Adventurous

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My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified…

Heart

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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually,…

Cameraman

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