It used to be said that if you found yourself in the same place as Kate Adie, you should leave straight away.
Kate Adie will be speaking at IFSEC 2016
As BBC Chief News Reporter she told the world about bloody protests in Tiananmen Square and witnessed first-hand the bloodshed in Bosnia, Sierra Leone and in the first Gulf War.
We are very pleased to confirm that the inspirational Kate Adie OBE DL will be speaking as one of this year’s keynotes at IFSEC International 2016. Taking to the keynote arena on 22 June – day two of the event – from 11.30am, Adie will have no shortage of fascinating stories to draw on (not least the time she was shot at by an “irate Libyan”).
To give you a taster of this very special session, here are some quotes from Kate Adie on her life of a journalist reporting from the front line. Register for your complimentary ticket here.
On the dangers of reporting from war zones
“I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.”
“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.”
“I worked in Bosnia, where 77 journalists were killed and 400 wounded, and at the BBC we have just lost a news producer in Africa.”
“Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever,wore flak jacket or helmets, but now the nastiness has got worse.”
In this archive footage you can see Kate Adie on one of her first assignments, reporting from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
