Owen Bennett-Jones

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Owen Bennett-Jones
Nationality British
Alma mater London School of Economics
St Antony's College, Oxford
University of Hull
Occupation(s)Journalist, presenter, writer
Notable credit(s) Newshour
Newshour Extra
Relatives Peter Bennett-Jones (brother)

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance British journalist and a relief presenter of Newshour on the BBC World Service. As a former BBC correspondent having been based in several countries, he also regularly reports from around the world. He currently hosts "The Future of..." on New Books Network.

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Education

Bennett-Jones was educated at Canford School, in Dorset. He graduated from the London School of Economics. In 1983, he obtained his MPhil in politics from St Antony's College, Oxford. [1] He also has a PhD from the University of Hull. [2]

Career

Journalist

Bennett-Jones has written for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, Financial Times and The Independent, as well as the London Review of Books. His recent London Review of Books articles have dealt with the MEK – a dissident Iranian militant group – and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He has also been a presenter of many programmes on the BBC World Service as well as a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. [2]

In 2008, he won the Sony Radio Gold Award in the News Journalist of the Year. [3]

In 2009, he was the Commonwealth journalist of the year. [4] [2]

Professor

In 2012, he was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California in 2014. [2]

Author

Bennett-Jones has lived in Pakistan as a BBC correspondent, and frequently travels to the country to cover it. [5] His history of Pakistan, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm (2002), [6] went into a third edition in 2010. [2]

He contributed to the Lonely Planet guide, Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway (2004). [7]

In 2012, he co-wrote a radio play about the assassination of the Pakistani politician Salman Taseer titled Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. [8]

In 2013, Bennett-Jones published his first book of fiction, Target Britain, a thriller set amid the war on terror. [9]

Personal life

His brother is Peter Bennett-Jones, founder and chairman of Tiger Aspect Television. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Alumni Updates - MT13 St Antony's College, Oxford
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Renowned print and broadcast journalist Dr Owen Bennet-Jones to lecture at Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth University
  3. ↑ The Sony radio awards - the winners, the losers... and George Lamb The Guardian
  4. ↑ I Love My Radio: My Stroll With Owen Bennett-Jones Huffpost
  5. ↑ "The causes of radicalisation in Pakistan and in Britain". SOAS University of London. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  6. ↑ Bennett-Jones, Owen (2003). Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. ISBN   9780300101478.
  7. ↑ Singh, Sarina; Bennett-Jones, Owen; Mock, John; O'Neil, Kimberley; Brown, Lindsay; Yasmeen, Samina (2004). Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway. Lonely Planet. ISBN   9780300101478.
  8. ↑ Joe Queenan, "Rewind radio", The Guardian, 9 September 2012.
  9. ↑ Bennett=Jones, Owen (2013). Target Britain. ASIN   B00C31Q7Q0.
  10. ↑ Peter Bennett-Jones: My Life In Media The Independent
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