Alex Crawford

“I badly wanted to write a book but didn’t know how. Kate made me believe I could.”

Alex Crawford, OBE, is the only journalist to have won the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year Award five times. She has also won two BAFTAs, three Emmys, five Golden Nymphs, the Bayeux War Correspondents Award, and the prestigious James Cameron Memorial Award.

After growing up in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Alex began her career at the Woking Times before moving to the BBC, TV-AM and eventually Sky News. She has been Special Correspondent in Sky’s Dubai, Delhi, Johannesburg and Istanbul bureaus.

Alex is married to fellow journalist Richard Edmondson and they have four children.

Alex Crawford was awarded her OBE for services to Broadcast Journalism in the 2012 New Year's Honours List.

ALEX’S BOOKS

Colonel Gaddafi's Hat, Collins, 2012

REVIEWERS

“Alex Crawford will forever be the journalist linked to the Libyan uprising.”

The Guardian

“She has gigantic balls made of titanium.”

India Knight

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WRITERS WHO HAVE INSPIRED ALEX

I loved Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. When I realised Kate was connected to that latter, stunningly original book, I thought I needed to meet this woman.

HOW ALEX BECAME KATE’S CLIENT

I was approached by a number of agents after the fall of Libya and Kate stood out as a woman who was honest and who could make it all happen. I instantly liked Kate’s no-nonsense, insightful and empathetic style. I thought, this is a woman I can work with, who will tell me the truth and who I can trust.

ALEX ABOUT KATE

She’s funny and human and got oodles of ideas. I badly wanted to write a book but didn’t know how. Kate made me believe I could, and always thought big for me.

KATE ABOUT ALEX

Alex is an astounding journalist and an extraordinary woman to work with: smart, open, funny, generous and utterly without airs. Her most inspiring quality is how much she cares: about her family, friends and colleagues, and about the people she meets through her work. Her humanity shines through everything she does and every word she writes.