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Andrew Steele

Andrew Steele is the BBC’s Middle East bureau chief, based in Jerusalem. He previously worked for Reuters and is a board member of the Foreign Press Association.

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The perils of professionalism: the BBC in the Middle East

The BBC, under intense pressure in Britain itself over its coverage of the Iraq war, faces challenges to its professionalism and impartiality in an equally controversial political arena: Israel and Palestine. Sarah McGregor-Wood and Hillel Schenker of the Palestine-Israel Journal interview the BBC’s Middle East bureau chief, Andrew Steele, about the dangers and satisfactions of getting the story, telling the truth – and taking the rap from both sides.

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