Jacky Rowland

I remember 10 years ago, with Afghanistan after 9/11, all the magazines and newspapers were doing stories about women war correspondents.

"[4] She "held a number of high-profile foreign postings",[5] and won the 2001 news event award from the Royal Television Society, for her coverage of the Belgrade revolution.

[6] Broadcaster Sue MacGregor said of her reporting in Afghanistan that "Kate Clark, Jacky Rowland, Susannah Price and Catherine Davis from the BBC World Service all distinguished themselves with daily accounts of the battle, and their names became almost as familiar as John Simpson's"[7] and Geoffrey Goodman commented in the British Journalism Review that "it is on television more than in newspapers that we have seen the emergence of half a dozen new stars of women war reporters – Jacky Rowland, already seasoned in North Africa and Kosovo, now Jerusalem; Susannah Price, Kate Clark both in Pakistan and Afghanistan; as well as the well established, accomplished brilliance of Janine di Giovanni",[8] but Kate Adie complained that she had "a cute face, cute bottom and nothing else in between".

Previously, she was based in Jerusalem, recruited from the BBC at the same time as ITN's David Chater "to fill key positions".

[16] She contributed to the 2011 book "How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone", giving the advice "Always carry a photograph of you with your children.