Veronica Pedrosa is a Filipino independent broadcast journalist,

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and moderator, based in London.

Career

Pedrosa began her career, in 1995, as a

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with

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and then with

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.Why Veronica went back to CNN
1 October 2000. Retrieved 2 February 2014 She has also been a journalist with

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ''ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs''), is the news and current affairs division of the Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. The division is the coun ...

Al Jazeera English

Pedrosa was with

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in the run-up to its launch, and worked for the channel for six years full-time, from 2005 to 2011, and then as a freelance for a few years more. During that time she was based in the Asia-Pacific bureau, in Kuala Lumpur; at the main bureau, in Doha; and as a correspondent in the field, based primarily in Bangkok:

Kuala Lumpur

Pedrosa was the lead news presenter at the

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bureau throughout its life as a broadcast centre, from 2005 in the run-up to the station's launch, to the closure of the Malaysian broadcast centre, in 2010. ;Doha In 2013, she took a break from her work as a field journalist in the Far East to work as a relief news-anchor in

Doha Doha ( ) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. It ...

. Based at the main broadcast centre in

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, she presented news-bulletins on the flagship programme ''Newshour'', but also appeared as the host of studio-based discussion programmes, such as the daily programme ''Inside Story'', and the more specialist weekly, ''Inside Syria''. She also hosted, from

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

, an edition of the extended-interview strand ''Talk to Al Jazeera''. ;Bangkok In addition to her studio-work, Pedrosa was a respected field-correspondent for Al Jazeera English. As the

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correspondent, she filed stories from

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and throughout the South-East Asia region. In November 2013, she returned to her homeland of the

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, to cover the aftermath of the super-typhoon.

Awards

In 2004, Pedrosa was named Best News Anchor at the

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Personal life

;Family Pedrosa is the daughter of Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa. Mrs. Navarro Pedrosa wrote a critical biography of the then- First Lady

Imelda Marcos Imelda Romualdez Marcos (; born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand ...

, during the Martial Law Era in the Philippines. This risked retribution and political persecution by President

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and Kleptocracy, kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the c ...

and his regime, so the family decided to go into voluntary exile, in London. ;Education Pedrosa was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School, in London, and at

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

. She graduated from

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in 1988, with an MA (Hons.) in English.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pedrosa, Veronica Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at St Paul's Girls' School Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Filipino expatriates in the United Kingdom Broadcast news analysts Filipino television news anchors CNN people BBC News people BBC newsreaders and journalists ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs people Al Jazeera people