Alex Crawford, the special correspondent for Sky News, will pick up the British Journalism Review’s Charles Wheeler award for outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism next month.
The award, which was revealed by the Guardian earlier this month, will be presented at Westminster university on Thursday 4 June.
Crawford began her journalistic career at the Wokingham Times before becoming a broadcaster, firstly with BBC Radio Nottingham and then TV-am.
She joined Sky News at its launch in 1989 and has since been garlanded with awards for her foreign reporting, often from conflict arenas.
The presentation to Crawford will be followed by the annual BJR Charles Wheeler lecture, which will be delivered by Alan Yentob, the BBC’s creative director.
Attendance at the event is strictly by invitation only.
Full disclosure: I am a BJR board member
