Iona Craig | |
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Nationality | British-Irish |
Alma mater | City University London |
Notable awards | Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Orwell Prize for Journalism, George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting |
Website | |
www |
Iona Craig (born 1976) is a British-Irish freelance journalist. Since 2010 her reporting has focused on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula.
She is the great-granddaughter of Sir James Craig, an Independent TD, and a cousin of Jeremy Craig, former Irish Ambassador to Lebanon. [1]
Craig was raised in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, and attended City University in London. Previous to her study and work as a journalist, Craig was a horse trainer and jockey. [2]
As a BBC intern, Craig studied Arabic, and moved to Sana’a, Yemen in 2010 to become an editor at the Yemen Times. As the Yemeni revolution began in February 2011 she left the Yemen Times to concentrate on freelance reporting including as Yemen correspondent for The Times of London. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Martha Gellhorn prize for her reporting on U.S. drone strikes in Yemen including the 12 December 2013 bombing of a wedding convoy. [3]
On 27 February 2013, Craig survived an assassination attempt when the taxi she was travelling in was ambushed and came under fire outside the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Sana'a. The taxi driver also survived. His quick thinking likely saved Craig's life. [4] [5]
The last accredited Western journalist living in the country, she left in 2014. [6] [7] Since then she has repeatedly returned to report on the Yemen civil war, human rights abuses and the country's humanitarian crisis from both sides of the frontlines for radio, print and TV. [8] [9] [10] [11] In 2017, she reported on the tragically botched United States Navy SEALs Yakla raid, [12] [13] for which she won the Foreign Reporting prize at the 2018 George Polk Awards.
Her work has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Irish Times, USA Today, Al Jazeera America, Time (magazine), Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, GlobalPost, Index on Censorship, The Intercept, National Geographic, The New Statesman and Vice, [6] amongst others.
Craig is also the volunteer spokesperson for the Yemen Data Project. [14]
Iona Craig | |
---|---|
Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Nationality | British-Irish |
Alma mater | City University London |
Notable awards | Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Orwell Prize for Journalism, George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting |
Website | |
www |
Iona Craig (born 1976) is a British-Irish freelance journalist. Since 2010 her reporting has focused on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula.
She is the great-granddaughter of Sir James Craig, an Independent TD, and a cousin of Jeremy Craig, former Irish Ambassador to Lebanon. [1]
Craig was raised in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, and attended City University in London. Previous to her study and work as a journalist, Craig was a horse trainer and jockey. [2]
As a BBC intern, Craig studied Arabic, and moved to Sana’a, Yemen in 2010 to become an editor at the Yemen Times. As the Yemeni revolution began in February 2011 she left the Yemen Times to concentrate on freelance reporting including as Yemen correspondent for The Times of London. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Martha Gellhorn prize for her reporting on U.S. drone strikes in Yemen including the 12 December 2013 bombing of a wedding convoy. [3]
On 27 February 2013, Craig survived an assassination attempt when the taxi she was travelling in was ambushed and came under fire outside the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Sana'a. The taxi driver also survived. His quick thinking likely saved Craig's life. [4] [5]
The last accredited Western journalist living in the country, she left in 2014. [6] [7] Since then she has repeatedly returned to report on the Yemen civil war, human rights abuses and the country's humanitarian crisis from both sides of the frontlines for radio, print and TV. [8] [9] [10] [11] In 2017, she reported on the tragically botched United States Navy SEALs Yakla raid, [12] [13] for which she won the Foreign Reporting prize at the 2018 George Polk Awards.
Her work has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Irish Times, USA Today, Al Jazeera America, Time (magazine), Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, GlobalPost, Index on Censorship, The Intercept, National Geographic, The New Statesman and Vice, [6] amongst others.
Craig is also the volunteer spokesperson for the Yemen Data Project. [14]