Lucy Watson (journalist)

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Lucy Watson
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Lucy Watson

Wirral, England
OccupationJournalist
Employer ITN (2007–present)
Website ITV Page

Lucy Watson is an English journalist and newsreader, who was employed by ITN for ITV News as a general news correspondent.

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Career history

Watson left Daybreak to join ITN in February 2014 under the title of China Correspondent for ITV News based in Beijing. [1]

In a report covering the conflict in Ukraine, she commented that "Now the unthinkable has happened to them. This is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe." This was criticised as offensive. [2]

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References

  1. "ITV Daybreak correspondent joins ITV News". ResponseSource.
  2. Ellison, Sarah. "'They seem so like us': In depicting Ukraine's plight, some in media use offensive comparisons". The Washington Post.