| 词条 | Alastair Leithead |
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| name = Alastair Leithead | image = | image_size = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|1|21}} | birth_place = Amersham | death_date = | death_place = | education = University of Manchester | occupation = Journalist | alias = | status = | title = | family = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | salary = | networth = | credits = BBC News | agent = | URL = }} Alastair Malcolm Leithead (born 1972) is a British journalist working as a foreign correspondent for the BBC. Leithead is currently{{when|date=September 2016}} based in Nairobi and works across all BBC News outlets. Early lifeAlastair Leithead was born in Amersham to Arthur Leithead, a security manager, and Edna Leithead (née Mooney), a teacher in private education. He was raised in Blaydon-on-Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.[1] He then went to the University of Manchester to study geography.[2] Early careerAfter leaving University, Leithead worked at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle before joining BBC Radio Newcastle. Later he worked as a news producer in London. Foreign reportingAs a foreign correspondent, Leithead has been based in Africa and Asia before moving to Kabul. There he covered the war in Afghanistan. Leithead has reported from a refugee camp in South Sudan. More recently, he has been based in Los Angeles before being re-located to Kenya as the BBC's Africa Correspondent in July 2015.[3] AwardsLeithead won the 2007 Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents Television Award for his war reporting. In 2005/6 he was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society's TV Journalism Award, and in 2008 he was shortlisted for a BAFTA for best news coverage. References1. ^ {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20121224080344/http://www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk/rgs-bursaries/appeal.php?profile=alastair-leithead |date=2012-12-24 }}, Giving the gift of education 2. ^ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629205949/http://www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk/rgs-bursaries/why-i-support-rgs-bursaries.php |date=2012-06-29 }}, Why I support RGS Bursaries. 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Leithead|first1=Alistair|title=Leithead's personal Twitter page|url=https://twitter.com/aleithead|website=Twitter|accessdate=24 July 2015}} External links{{Portal|BBC}}
5 : 1972 births|Living people|People educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne|Alumni of the University of Manchester|BBC newsreaders and journalists |
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