The veteran foreign correspondent, Dame Ann Leslie, has reported from more than 70 countries over the last forty years and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television. 

At the Reuters/Press Gazette launch of the Newspaper Hall of Fame she was named as one of the most influential journalists of the last forty years. In David Randall’s The Great Reporters (celebrating the 13 best British and American journalists of all time) she is profiled as ‘the most versatile reporter ever’.

Her many awards over the years include the James Cameron Prize for International Reporting ‘for work that combined moral vision and professional integrity’, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from the Media Society which stated: ‘Ann Leslie is only the third person to receive the honour, the two previous winners being Sir Alistair Cooke and Sir David Attenborough.’

Her memoir Killing My Own Snakes was described by the Guardian as ‘a vivid, absorbing book which, like Leslie’s best journalism, conveys what it’s like to live through wars, civil conflicts, oppression and historic change.’