Barbara plett biography wikipedia
Barbara plett biography wikipedia
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Barbara Plett Usher
Canadian-born BBC television journalist (born 1967)
Barbara Plett Usher is a Canadian-born UK journalist with experience in the Middle East and the UN.
She has worked for the BBC in Jerusalem, Islamabad and the United Nations.[3]
From 2021 she has been the BBC's State Department correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., USA. Since 2024 she has been the BBC's Africa Editor, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Education
Plett Usher graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.[1]
Career
She joined the BBC as a freelancer from Cairo in 1995 and became its Middle East correspondent by 2000.[1]
She then went on to cover the death of the Syrian President Hafez al Assad in 2000[1] and to do much reporting under siege in Ramallah in 2002.[1] Her career took her to Iraq in 2003.[1]
Plett Usher worked as BBC correspondent in Jerusalem before b