Quotes by Kate Adie

About Kate Adie:

Kathryn "Kate" Adie is an English journalist. Her most high-profile role was that of chief news correspondent for BBC News, during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Kate Adie

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kate Adie

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Kate Adie

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Kate Adie

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

Kate Adie

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

Kate Adie

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

Kate Adie

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Kate Adie

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

Kate Adie

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

Kate Adie

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Kate Adie

No two wars are identical.

Kate Adie

Todo reportero debe atenerse al principio básico de ser testigo directo de los hechos. Si bien las ruedas de prensa y las declaraciones oficiales son útiles en la labor periodística, nada sustituye a los acontecimientos reales".

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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

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Author Bio

  • NameKate Adie
  • DescriptionBritish journalist
  • BornSeptember 19, 1945
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire