{"id":25286,"date":"2023-07-25T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/watch-george-alagiahs-extraordinary-career\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:32:42","slug":"watch-george-alagiahs-extraordinary-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/watch-george-alagiahs-extraordinary-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: George Alagiah&#8217;s extraordinary career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <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><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>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 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[11289,2924,394,713,1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25288,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions\/25288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}