Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Ali Fortescue is a political reporter for Sky News covering a wide range of local, national, and international news stories.
- Prior to joining Sky, Ali Fortescue gained recognition as a correspondent for the BBC network in northern England.
- Besides breaking exclusives, Ali gained fame for being the first reporter to see a migrant sailboat cross the channel.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Ali Fortescue is currently not married.
- She is often mistaken for Lily Fortescue, the identical twin of performer Rosie Fortescue. However, they are not related.
- However, Ali is a descendant of Seymour Henry Fortescue and Jennifer Ann Simon, and is related to Serene Highness, the Hereditary Royal Princess Zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg. She is also the granddaughter of the 6th Earl Fortescue.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- From 2009 to 2012, Ali Fortescue attended the University of Oxford, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree (2.1).
Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- From September 2012 to February 2013, Ali Fortescue worked as a business development stagiaire for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Paris, France.
- In December 2013 to January 2014, she served as a news intern for Jack FM.
- From May 2014 to June 2014, Ali worked as a video intern for AFP.
- From March 2014 to August 2014, she freelanced as a journalist.
- Ali began her career as an intern at the Telegraph and the Ashmolean Museum. She also worked as a freelance journalist and writer for London Live ESTV from March 2014 to September 2014.
- Starting in September 2014, Fortescue joined the BBC as a journalism trainee under the ITS scheme. She later became a reporter for BBC News in September 2015 and continues to work there.
- Since September 2018, Ali has been serving as a correspondent for Sky News.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- She has professional fluency in Spanish and French.
- In her analysis piece titled “Liz Truss may be no Messiah, but her political comeback has rattled some MPs,” published on February 5, 2023, Ali highlights the impact of Liz Truss’s growth-focused agenda on Westminster and Rishi Sunak.
- She is in charge of many domestic and international reporting projects. She was the first reporter to watch a passenger boat cross the English Channel.
- In her piece (March 7, 2023) for Sky News, Ali clarified Rishi Sunak’s severe rhetoric on immigration while also pointing out that the slogan “stop the boats” is not as simple as it first appears. It will be challenging to assess how well the administration is performing without access to the figures, and the prime minister refused to be pushed to set particular targets. The administration wants the entire globe to see this picture.
- She was recognised by the Royal Television Society for her “astonishing journalism” in discovering abuse at one care home in Margate. She has won numerous honors, including an O2 award.
- On August 11, 2020, Ali received criticism from Twitter users after following migrants across the English Channel. She was seen waving a microphone and asking, “Are you ok?,” which led to accusations of him being “posh, entitled, and white.” The incident captured in a video showed Ali approaching a small boat carrying ten people near Dover. The incident was reported in the Daily Mail.
Body Figure / Physical Info
Measurements :
- Eye Color : Blue
- Haircut / Hair Color : Blonde
- How tall / Height : No confirmed information is available.
- Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
- Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
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