‘There’s a degree of calculated risk… you hope your calculations are correct’: Orla Guerin on life as a BBC war correspondent

From working in Penneys to reporting from the frontline in Ukraine, the Dubliner talks to Colleen Murrell about her career in some of the world’s most dangerous trouble spots

‘The way you reach an audience, I think, is by telling stories that are personal’: Orla Guerin in Eastern Ukraine in 2022 for BBC News

Looking back over her distinguished career as a foreign correspondent at the BBC, Orla Guerin rules out any pre-ordained logic to it, but thinks that she simply followed the big news destinations.

“I suppose I’ve been drawn to areas where the story was kind of tough and interesting. It hasn’t been Paris and Berlin and Sydney – you know the places that would

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