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Stephen Jessel (born 9 August 1943) was for many years a British BBC correspondent, based between 1977 and 1995 in Paris, Beijing, Brussels, Washington DC and again Paris. He had previously worked, after leaving university, for The Times of London as a reporter and education correspondent. Before joining the BBC foreign staff, he worked as reporter and again education correspondent.

Jessel was the son of The Times defence correspondent, Robert Jessel, who died aged 37, and Dame Penelope Jessel (née Blackwell), and the brother of journalist David Jessel. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, [1] and Shrewsbury School. He won an Open Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, leaving with a first in Mods and a Third in Greats.

As a BBC correspondent, he was a prolific contributor to From Our Own Correspondent and remained with the BBC as a freelance after ceasing to be a staff correspondent and broadcast after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in Paris. [2]

He later worked for AFP as a translator and sub-editor, and taught at the now-defunct Journalists in Europe Fund as well as in Kosovo, Algeria, Albania, Georgia and Liberia. He worked extensively as an editor for the OECD.

In 1970, he married Jane Margaret Marshall, with whom he had a daughter in 1981.

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  1. ↑ "Eminent Dragons". Dragon School. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Diana, Princess of Wales: A Pick of the Continuity Announcements Special". Meldrum. 29 March 2000. Retrieved 7 October 2011.


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