Lindsey Hilsum Biography
Lindsey Hilsum is a television journalist and writer from England. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, New Statesman, and Granta, as well as the International Editor for Channel 4 News.
How old is Lindsey Hilsum? – Age
She is 63 years old as of 3 August 2021. She was born in 1958 in the United Kingdom.
Lindsey Hilsum Family
She is the daughter of Betty Hilsum and British physicist Cyril Hilsum. Her father is a physicist who is best known for research that helped lay the foundation for modern LCD technology.
Is Lindsey Hilsum Married Now? – Husband
She has decided to keep her love life away from the media, she has not revealed her marital status to the public making it difficult to know whether she is married, single, dating, or engaged.
Lindsey Hilsum Salary
Her salary is estimated to be between $33,774 to $112,519 yearly.
Lindsey Hilsum Rwanda
She was embedded with a frontline marine unit during the US assault on Falluja in 2004, and she was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide began in 1994. She worked as an aid worker in Latin America and Africa before becoming a journalist.
Lindsey Hilsum Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
Lindsey Hilsum Books
Sandstorm: Libya in the Age of Revolution, her first book, was published by Faber in the UK in April 2012 and Penguin Press in the US in May 2012 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2012. In Extremis: The Life and Death of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, her second book, was released in November 2018 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in the United States and Chatto & Windus in the United Kingdom. This book has been nominated for the Costa Book Prize in the category of biography for 2019.
Lindsey Hilsum Career
Hilsum is the International Editor for Channel 4 News. She has covered the major conflicts of the last two decades, including the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo wars, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She covered the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya in 2011. She has also reported extensively from Iran and Zimbabwe, and from 2006 to 2008, she was the Channel 4 News China Correspondent.
She admits that this is “a very difficult thing to get right,” but she is adamant that foreign correspondents should not manipulate emotive images “to make a political point.” In 2004, the University of Essex bestowed an honorary doctorate upon her, and she has received numerous awards, including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year, the James Cameron Award, the One World Broadcasting Trust Award, Amnesty International, Voice of the Viewer and Listener, and the Charles Wheeler Award. In 2017, she was honored with the Rolex Patron’s Medal. She received the Royal Geographical Society’s Patron’s Medal in 2017. In Extremis earned her the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography).
