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 BORN 
February 6th 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH
Canton, Cardiff, WALES
FAMOUS FOR
Journalist and Television presenter for the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC)
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Born in the swinging sixties, Jeremy was educated at Cardiff High School
and also played football for the 'Youth Fifteen' team in the late
Seventies. He has remained a supporter of Cardiff City
Football Club throughout his life. After graduating from University College
in London with a
BA in History, he studied at the School of Advanced
International Studies at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland, USA. Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as a news
trainee. After building his reputation as a broadcaster in the
Radio Newsroom and as a Television News correspondent, he became the
Geneva correspondent for Radio News in 1987.
Since then, Jeremy has been a war correspondent
for much of his career, reporting from more than 70 different
countries, covering conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the
West Bank, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and
Rwanda.
Jeremy became the Middle East correspondent in 1995 and won Best
News Correspondent at the New York Television Festival. The following year, he won Best
Breaking News report for his coverage of Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin's assassination. He previously co-presented BBC One's
Breakfast for two years after its launch in October 2000, and has
also presented episodes of the satirical news quiz 'Have I Got News
For You'.
In March 2003, Jeremy Bowen became a special correspondent for BBC
Television News, and in June 2005 Jeremy was appointed to the
newly-created role of BBC Middle East Editor. |
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