Stephen Jessel (born 9 August 1943) was for many years a

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correspondent, based between 1977 and 1995 in Paris, Beijing, Brussels, Washington DC and again Paris. He had previously worked, after leaving university, for ''

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'' of London as a reporter and education correspondent. Before joining the BBC foreign staff, he worked as reporter and again education correspondent. Jessel was the son of ''

'' defence correspondent, Robert Jessel, who died aged 37, and Dame

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(née Blackwell), and the brother of journalist

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. He was educated at the

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in Oxford, and

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. He won an Open Exhibition to

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, leaving with a first in Mods and a Third in Greats. As a BBC correspondent, he was a prolific contributor to ''

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'' and remained with the BBC as a freelance after ceasing to be a staff correspondent and broadcast after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in Paris. He later worked for

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as a translator and sub-editor, and taught at the now-defunct Journalists in Europe Fund as well as in Kosovo, Algeria, Albania, Georgia and Liberia. He worked extensively as an editor for the

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. In 1970, he married Jane Margaret Marshall, with whom he had a daughter in 1981.

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