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In Conversation with Andrew Whitehead, Former Editor of the BBC World Service News

Covering the News: A Look Back at 2020

Understand what is at stake for journalists as they cover the news, including a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and Brexit.

Andrew Whitehead was until recently Editor of BBC World Service News, where he was responsible for the live news and current affairs content of the world’s most respected radio network. He also served as the BBC’s Delhi correspondent and political correspondent during his 35-year career with BBC News.

He is an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham; teaches at the Global Education Oregon London Centre, and is a visiting professor at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, south India.

He is the author of A Mission in Kashmir (2007), which uses oral history and personal testimony to interrogate the established Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri narratives of how the Kashmir conflict started in 1947. His biography of Freda Bedi—Oxford communist, Indian nationalist, and Tibetan nun—was published in 2019. Learn more at his personal website and blog: www.andrewwhitehead.net.

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