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Emma Hurd

Emma Hurd



Emma, Sky News’ Africa Correspondent, based in Johannesburg has recently been reporting from the World Cup in South Africa. She also undertook an Antarctic expedition with a team monitoring the continuing melting of the polar ice cap as part of Sky's Copenhagen coverage.

Since taking up her posting in September 2006, Emma has reported from across the continent and her work has been nominated for numerous awards.

She spent weeks working undercover in Zimbabwe during the turmoil of the 2008 election. 

Her reports revealed the scale of the humanitarian crisis in the nation under Robert Mugabe’s rule. She has continued to provide in-depth coverage of the progress of the fragile power-sharing deal.

Emma’s reporting has both reflected change in Africa and provoked it.

Her expose of the Gambian President’s fake AIDS cure made headlines around the world and resulted in the Gambian authorities expelling a UN representative who dared to speak out in Emma’s exclusive report.

The South African police were forced to take action after her coverage of the shocking treatment of illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe at the hands of local farmers.

Emma has also reported on the post election violence in Kenya, the crisis in Darfur, child slavery in Ghana, and the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Emma joined Sky News in 1996 and has been a foreign correspondent since October 2000.

As Sky’s Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, she reported on a period of dramatic change in the region including the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s historic withdrawal from Gaza, the election of Hamas, and the 2006 Israel/Lebanon war.

In 2003 she was embedded with British forces during the invasion of Iraq and travelled with the first tank unit to enter the city of Basra.

As US correspondent, Emma led Sky News’ New York coverage of the September 11th attacks.

In 2000 she was awarded a Gold Medal at the New York Film and Television awards for her report on the final months of Israel’s occupation of Southern Lebanon.

She has twice been nominated as Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
Emma began her career in BBC local radio and regional television.

She has a degree in Government and Law from the London School of Economics.

 

 

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