Jacqueline Jones

Jacqueline Jones is a senior producer for BBC Television News working on the evening news program. Based in London, she also produces for the BBC overseas. Last year she covered the war in Iraq and went to Gaza, Israel, Turkey, Kuwait and the U.S. Although international news and politics has driven much of her career, she has also been an output editor on the Today program, Britain’s leading daily politics and current affairs radio program. As a teenager, she worked in Africa for a year on health and water projects in tiny villages. Educated in Britain and the United States, she has been working for the BBC since she was a student. She started as a reporter for local radio, then regional TV before her move to the BBC’s London headquarters. Jones will examine the U.S. and European coverage of the 2004 presidential campaign during the period starting with the Democratic National Convention through Election Night.