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Jane Loughrey is a journalist, originally from north Belfast. [1] She has worked for UTV Television in Ulster between 1992 and 2021 and is[ when? ] a principal journalist for UTV Live . [2] She graduated from Queen's University Belfast and then studied journalism in England. [3] In 2013, she was awarded the Gold prize in the category "feature of the year" from the ITV Regions and Nations News Awards in London, for her program about the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Bloody Friday bombings. [1] In 2015, Loughrey was honored as the year's best television journalist at the Northern Ireland Media Awards ceremony of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. [4] In 2018, she was one of the 68 journalists selected to relate their personal memories of The Troubles in the book by Deric Henderson and Ivan Little, Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict published by Blackstaff Press. Academic analyses of the events have tried to place them in context of politics and paramilitary organizations, but have sanitized the human cost, which reporters' first-hand accounts make evident. [5] [6]

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  1. 1 2 "North Belfast's Jane Loughrey Wins Top Award". Ulster Tatler . Belfast, Northern Ireland: Howard Publications. 4 June 2013. ISSN   0049-5107. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "People - Reporters and Correspondents". UTV Today. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Hailes, Anne (14 September 2014). "Sunday Update. A Week of Hellos and Goodbyes". annehailesblog.co.uk. Anne Hailes Today. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020. Blog is published by journalist and lifestyles reporter for Belfast's The Irish News, Anne Hailes.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ↑ "UTV's Jane Loughrey scoops industry award". UTV . Belfast, Northern Ireland. 27 June 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Henderson, Deric; Little, Ivan (2018). Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict. Newtownards, Northern Ireland: Blackstaff Press. ISBN   978-1-78073-179-7.
  6. ↑ Walker, Gail (25 September 2018). "Gail Walker: Reporters saw human cost of Northern Ireland's political failures during the Troubles". Belfast Telegraph . Belfast, Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
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