Emma Hurd is Sky News’ Middle East Correspondent based in Jerusalem. She has recently been reporting from Benghazi as people escaped the city convinced Gaddafi’s forces were on their way, she witnessed the moment when the rebel jet nosedived over the city before it crashed and she reported from Tripoli where she survived the frustrations and restrictions of the Rixos Hotel.  
 
Prior to moving to Jerusalem, Emma was Sky News’ Africa Correspondent for five years. During this time Emma covered the South Africa World Cup, spent weeks working undercover in Zimbabwe during the turmoil of the 2008 election, revealed the humanitarian crisis in the nation under Robert Mugabe’s rule as well as undertaking an Antarctic exhibition with a team monitoring the continuing melting of the polar ice cap. Emma’s expose of the Gambian President’s fake AIDS cure made headlines around the world and resulted in the Gambian authorities expelling a UN representative who dared to speak out in Emma’s exclusive report.   The South African police were also forced to take action after her coverage of the shocking treatment of illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe at the hands of local farmers. Emma has reported on the post election violence in Kenya, the crisis in Darfur, child slavery in Ghana, and the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Emma joined Sky News in 1996 and has been a foreign correspondent since October 2000 with this being her second stint in Jerusalem. During her first posting in the Middle East, Emma reported on a period of dramatic change in the region including the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s historic withdrawal from Gaza, the election of Hamas, and the 2006 Israel/Lebanon war. As US correspondent, Emma led Sky News’ New York coverage of the September 11th attacks. 
 
In 2000 she was awarded a Gold Medal at the New York Film and Television awards for her report on the final months of Israel’s occupation of Southern Lebanon and she has twice been nominated as Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.