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Kate Adie (26)

Birth:	19th September, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist

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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team – make-up, costume and a driver – but usually, in a war zone, there’s only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Make-Up, Assume, Usually, Backup

• 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

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Russian, Illustration, Authority

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Targets, Journalist, Danger

• 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

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Struggle, Military

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

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sailed, Drama, Childhood, Complete

• It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reporters, Glamorous, Famous, Being, Low

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

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Kill

• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sent, Woman, Teacher, School, Marriage

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complaining, Reporting, Appearance, Problem, Remember

• 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.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Fairness, Excited, Interest

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

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Selection, Stories

• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attracted, Violence

• I’ve never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life’s too short.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Sit, Short

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Verified, Fast

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Orange, Prize

• I was timid and frightened as a child I was timid and frightened as a childI was timid and frightened as a childI was timid and frightened as a child.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Frightened

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

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Involved, Gossip

• 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.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prohibit, Ahead

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Information, Works