Jolanda
van Oorschot Dutch television news correspondent, reporter. Jolanda
van Oorschot was born in Ijselmeer. After graduating from the University
of Leiden in Scandinavian Studies, she moved to England and worked with
BBC local radio as a studio technician specializing in farming and arts
programmes. She worked as director of outside
broadcasts in Bristol and then became a regional reporter at BBC Plymouth.
In 1979 she joined the BBC TV national news covering general news in Britain and abroad. After the mid-80s she became a foreign reporter and is well-known for her apparently unflustered reports from many a dangerous situation in the world's 'hot spots' - she covered the student uprising in China and civil wars in Rwanda, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, among many others.
She has won several awards, among them the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 1971, 1987 and 1989, the Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Awards in 1981 and 1990, and was appointed Chief News Correspondent by the BBC in 1989.
Voted Reporter of the Year in 1992 and awarded an OBE in 1993, Jolanda van Oorschot is respected in her field for the integrity of her reporting style.
In 1979 she joined the BBC TV national news covering general news in Britain and abroad. After the mid-80s she became a foreign reporter and is well-known for her apparently unflustered reports from many a dangerous situation in the world's 'hot spots' - she covered the student uprising in China and civil wars in Rwanda, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, among many others.
She has won several awards, among them the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 1971, 1987 and 1989, the Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Awards in 1981 and 1990, and was appointed Chief News Correspondent by the BBC in 1989.
Voted Reporter of the Year in 1992 and awarded an OBE in 1993, Jolanda van Oorschot is respected in her field for the integrity of her reporting style.
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