David Shukman

David Roderick Shukman FRSGS (born 30 May 1958, St Pancras, London, England) is Science Editor for BBC News.

Background

His father was Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford,[1] and his mother was also a Russian scholar of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian). He attended Eton College, then read Geography at Durham University gaining a BA.[2] He graduated with an upper second in 1980[3] and was a member of Hatfield College.[4]

Work history

He worked at the Coventry Evening Telegraph from 1980 to 1983 when he joined the BBC.[2] He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985 to 1987 (at a turbulent time in Northern Ireland's history), then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987 to 1995.[2] From then until 1999 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003, when he became Environment and Science correspondent.[2] In January 2012 he was appointed as the BBC's first science editor.[5]

Personal life

He married Jessica Pryce-Jones in August 1988 in Powys, Wales, and they have two sons (born December 1989 and April 1992) and one daughter, Kitty[6] (born November 1994). Shukman is a member of the Frontline Club.[2]

He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, whom he is named after, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Poland, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom.[6]

Books

  • Brown, Ben and Shukman, David, All Necessary Means : Inside the Gulf War, 1994
  • Shukman, David, The Sorcerer's Challenge: Fears and Hopes for the Weapons of the Next Millennium, 1996
  • Shukman, David, Tomorrow's War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons, 1996
  • Shukman, David, Reporting Live from the End of the Word. Profile Books, 2010.
  • Shukman, David, Reporting Live from the End of the World , 2011
  • Shukman, David, An Iceberg As Big As Manhattan, 2011

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Harold Shukman". The Daily Telegraph. London. 25 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Shukman, David Roderick, (born 30 May 1958), Science Editor, BBC News". UK Who's Who. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Durham University gazette, XXV (ns) no. 2 including supplement". Durham University Gazette. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hatfield College : Alumni". Durham University. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Plunkett, John (16 January 2012). "BBC names David Shukman as first science editor". The Guardian. London.
  6. 1 2 Shukman, David (16 June 2012). "A Polish village's forgotten Jewish dead". British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
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