Lyse Doucet Biography
Lyse Doucet is a Canadian journalist and senior presenter for the BBC. She is a BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television presenter, as well as a BBC Radio 4 and BBC News reporter in the United Kingdom. She also creates and broadcasts documentaries.
Lyse Doucet Age
Doucet is 63 years old as of 2021. She was born Lyse Marie Doucet on 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, Canada.
Lyse Doucet Height
Doucet stands at a height of stands at the height of 5 feet 3 inches(1.6m).
Lyse Doucet Family
Doucet was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, and grew up in an Anglophone family. Clarence “Boo” Emile Doucet was her father, and Norma was her mother. She is the youngest of six children. Andrea Doucet, a Canadian sociology professor, is her sister. Her ancestors are Acadian, Irish, and Mi’kmaq.
Lyse Doucet Accent
Doucet is fluent in English, French, and Dari, as well as a little Dari and Arabic.
Lyse Doucet Husband
Doucet is not married and does not have a husband as of the date of this writing. Lyse has been free of the media’s speculations and rumors.
Lyse Doucet Education
Doucet earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1980 from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where she also wrote for the university newspaper. In 1982, she received a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Toronto. In the same year, she completed a four-month volunteer stint in Ivory Coast with Canadian Crossroads International, teaching English. She is currently an honorary patron of the organization.
Lyse Doucet Illness
Doucet was afflicted with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. The blast on the site had left her with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, which had ended her broadcasting career. Lyse and Natalie were on a dangerous mission in Syria in 2014 when a shell exploded near their vehicles. They were taken aback by the incident. Aside from that, no other health issues have been reported by the media.
Lyse Doucet Salary
Doucet earns an annual salary of $400 thousand.
Lyse Doucet Net Worth
Doucet has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Lyse Doucet BBC
She worked as a freelancer in West Africa for the Canadian media and the BBC from 1983 to 1988. This time served as a springboard to a longer-term career with the BBC. Doucet began reporting from Pakistan in 1988, and he was based in Kabul from late 1988 to the end of 1989 to cover the Soviet troop withdrawal and its aftermath. From 1989 to 1993, she was the BBC’s correspondent in Islamabad, also reporting from Afghanistan and Iran. She established the BBC office in Amman, Jordan, in 1994. She lived in Jerusalem from 1995 to 1999 and traveled throughout the Middle East. She joined the BBC’s presenter team in 1999, but she continues to report from the field.
Doucet is frequently used to anchor major news events from the field and to interview key individuals. She was a key player in the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring, reporting from Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Since the mid-1990s, she has covered every major conflict in the Middle East. Doucet has been visiting Pakistan and Afghanistan on a regular basis since the late 1980s. Her work also focuses on the aftermath of major natural disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which forced her to travel to India and Indonesia. She also contributes to Dateline London on BBC News Channel and BBC World News on a rotating basis with other BBC journalists.
In 2014, she co-directed the documentary Children of Syria with Robin Barnwell, which was nominated for Best Single Documentary at the 2015 BAFTA Awards. In 2015, she co-directed the documentary Children of the Gaza War with James Jones. In 2018, she presented two documentaries for BBC Two and BBC World titled Syria: The World’s War.
Doucet began Her Story Made History, a five-part BBC Radio 4 series featuring in-depth interviews with five remarkable women, on New Year’s Day, 2018. The relationship between women and democracy is the theme. A second series aired on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service in the summer of 2019. Doucet reported extensively from Kabul Airport in August 2021, following the withdrawal of the coalition from Afghanistan following the Taliban offensive in the country. In the second half of 2021, she recorded A Wish for Afghanistan, a 10-episode podcast for BBC Sounds. She contributed to the BBC’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from Kyiv in February 2022, alongside Clive Myrie.
Lyse Doucet Awards
Doucet, along with producer Melanie Marshall, Shoaib Sharifi, and cameraman Tony Jolliffe, won a Peabody and a David Bloom award in 2010 for her film on maternal mortality in Afghanistan. At the 2010 Sony Radio Academy Awards, she was named Best News Journalist. Her team received an Emmy award from the BBC in 2014 for its coverage of the Syrian conflict.
Doucet’s team won the Luchetta Prize in 2017 for its story about a Syrian teenager in the Syrian city of Homs, which raises awareness of the plight of children in war. She received “The Trailblazer Award” from Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace, and Security in 2018. She was also honored by Their World, a global children’s charity based in London, UK, with the #ChangeTheCulture award.
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