{"id":46406,"date":"2023-07-24T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/watch-george-alagiahs-extraordinary-career\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:49:51","slug":"watch-george-alagiahs-extraordinary-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=46406","title":{"rendered":"Watch: George Alagiah&#8217;s extraordinary career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">George Alagiah, one of the BBC&#8217;s longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-65949435\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Alagiah won awards for reports on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s, and was nominated for a Bafta in 1994 for covering Saddam Hussein&#8217;s genocidal campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He was also named Amnesty International&#8217;s journalist of the year in 1994, for reporting on the civil war in Burundi, and was the first BBC journalist to report on the genocide in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">And if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/1KkkxvD0G1w4l294QCrQZbh\/information-and-support-cancer\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC&#8217;s Action Line page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-66200509?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] George Alagiah, one of the BBC&#8217;s longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer. Alagiah won awards for reports on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}