A SKY NEWS reporter has been hailed for her dramatic reporting from Tripoli as rebels stormed the Libyan capital late last night.
Alex Crawford was trending worldwide on Twitter last night as she reported live from the frontlines of the rebels’ advance on the fragile stronghold of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Sky News was the only known television channel to carry live reporting from inside Tripoli with Crawford, an award-winning special correspondent for the rolling news channel, sat amongst the rebels as they cheered and let off live rounds in celebration at the demise of Gaddafi.
In her bullet proof flak jacket and helmet, this was her astonishing live report on Sky News last night:
The Daily Telegraph reports that quite amazingly, her report and the footage from Tripoli was broadcast using an Apple Mac Pro laptop connected to a mini-satellite dish charged by a car cigarette lighter.
Her cameraman Garwen Mclukie was celebrating his birthday yesterday as he filmed the extraordinary footage.
Crawford is a three-time winner of the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year Award.
The 48-year-old is married with four children and her biography on the Sky News website informs us she “has been arrested, detained, interrogated by south Asian regimes and faced live bullets, tear-gassing, rubber bullets, IED’S, mortar shells, molotov cocktails, water cannon and lathi (bamboo) whipping.”
She has been tweeting intermittently from Libya, this morning she described the conditions in Tripoli as “horrendous” with the city’s only working hospital “seriously stretched”.
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