Sophie Alexander
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International Affairs Producer for Sky News. @womenoffuture ambassador. Email me: sophie.alexander2 @sky .uk
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I was just thrown out of the Versailles bakery in Miami for asking President Trump if he was ready to go to jail. A man screamed ‘stupid bitch’ in my face while others said I was a ‘traitor’
#TrumpArraignment
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The moment a man screamed ‘stupid bitch’ in my face after I publicly questioned Donald Trump. Thanks to all those asking, I got out perfectly safely
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Waking this morning to fully understand the enormity of what we witnessed yesterday. Myself,
@robertmooreitv
and
@MarkDaveyITN
had no idea we were the only crew in the world to report on this first-hand.
Watch
@robertmooreitv
's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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I did not shout ‘Trump for prison’. I asked: ‘President Trump are you ready for jail?’, a perfectly legitimate question
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Last night we won a
@BAFTA
for our news report, Storming of the Capitol. Both immensely proud and catastrophically hungover. Would like to thank my incredible former colleagues
@robertmooreitv
@MarkDaveyITN
@TheBlairosphere
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🚨Delighted to be joining
@SkyNews
next month as International Affairs Producer working with
@DominicWaghorn
. Will be sad to say bye to
@itvnews
after four fab years but I’m ecstatic about the new challenge 🌏
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So.. the day after MPs voted to force ministers to publish secret No Deal papers..A ‘Data Shred’ van has just pulled up outside No 10 🧐
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The 2022 International Emmy Winner for News goes to “ITV News: Storming of The Capitol” produced by
@itvnews
/ Independent Television News (
@itn
), from the
#UnitedKingdom
!
#iemmyNEWS
#iemmyWIN
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So mum & dad have been fairly pleased with my work/career path etc. But appearing on Radio 4 has sealed the deal. Listen at 1630 to me and
@robertmooreitv
talking about being inside the Capitol with the rioters. Thanks
@amolrajan
for having us on
#MediaShow
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Reporting from Tbilisi where we met Georgian protestor
@gvbrdghvnian
. He says he was homophobic before watching your Out There documentary, which changed his life
@stephenfry
. He now adores you so much he named his gorgeous dog, Fry.
Photos by
@CharlieBrunskil
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The best thing about working in TV is the teamwork. Team
@haynesdeborah
and team
@DominicWaghorn
pictured here in Odesa with some of our brilliant Ukrainian colleagues
@SkyNews
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If anyone is genuinely interested in reaching out to Janet please email me on sophie.alexander
@ITN
.co.uk
'I can go for days without speaking to anyone.'
Janet is one of millions to experience loneliness in the UK - here's her story:
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Happy Easter to everyone but especially my Godfather, 93, who has forgone the traditional chocolate egg and instead got me and my sister each a toilet brush from Wilkos
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Oh blimey, we won
@robertmooreitv
@MarkDaveyITN
The Best News Coverage Prize is awarded to ITV News - Inside US Capitol !
#MonteCarloTVFestival
#GoldenNymph
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Rioters who have stormed the Capitol make it to Pelosi’s office tearing the plaque from above the door in sheer fury
#dcprotest
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A stark warning to Boris Johnson from the US today. Nancy Pelosi tells me ‘the UK should not even think of a bilateral trade deal if they walk away from an international agreement’
@itvnews
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This is what tenants mean when they say they ask for help over and over but their housing assoc ignores them. Michael’s situation has been going on for years.
I am in pain every day, this is the medication I have to take. But the mental pain
@catalysthousing
have put me through is so much worse, sometimes I feel like taking the lot.
@tomemurtha
@Annareporting
@SophieAlex1
@KwajoHousing
@BBCLondonNews
@insidehousing
@michaelgove
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Only 20 miles away from my hometown of Folkestone there is an abundance of tomatoes on the shelves in a supermarket in Calais. No sign of a poor harvest here…
#TomatoShortages
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As of today I’m based in the
@itvnews
Washington DC bureau. Friends, enemies, contacts and anyone else please get in touch! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Large convoy of Ukrainian military vehicles, including a tank, spotted early this morning on the road to Kharkiv
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@KwajoHousing
Kwajo, your first thought is for tenants and not for politicians, which is how it should be. Keep on doing your thing 💛
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I spent a long time on the Eastfields estate with wonderful, hardworking and resilient residents. They should not have to live like this. And it shouldn’t take our involvement to fix it. Watch more at 6:15 and 22:20 tonight.
Collapsed ceilings, mice and mould: Appalling conditions uncovered across an entire housing estate of nearly 500 homes
Read more on
@DanielHewittITV
's investigation:
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Please watch this by my friend
@KwajoHousing
for
@GMB
. Poor social housing cannot be forgotten in 2023 and he will be striving to make sure it stays on the govt’s agenda
A sobering story about Yemi and her 2 daughters.. living in a home for over 2 years covered in black mould, damp and disrepair.
An exclusive investigation for
@GMB
@willgodley
#rt
🙏🏽
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Shits given about Beatrice’s wedding = 0 but my god Cara Delevingne marry me already
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.
@itvnews
Washington correspondent
@robertmooreitv
on CNN right now speaking to Erin Burnett about our report from yesterday
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Dana served openly as a trans man in the military for one year before Trump issued a total ban calling him and many others 'unfit' to serve. He fought in the Gulf and Bosnian wars and dedicated 30 years of his life to the Air Force.
@SophieAlex1
@realDonaldTrump
Dana Delgardo, a retired Major in the US Air Force tells
@SophieAlex1
how President Obama’s decision to allow transgender people to openly serve changed his life - and then that decision was reversed
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The
#CapitolBuilding
is largely quiet tonight. Rows of police standing guard. The question of course being, where were they earlier?
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My take on entering the Capitol alongside domestic terrorists and what it was like inside. Give it a read if you can.
ITV News journalist
@SophieAlex1
reports from inside US Capitol: 'A crowd of furious men in camouflage wielding heavy wooden sticks encircled us'
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My great pal and colleague
@MarkDaveyITN
just won an RTS Craft award for his incredible camera skills during the Capitol Riot. On Jan 6 he was ultra calm and focused. So deserved!
Described as “a case study of how good camera operators know how to be in the right place at the right time and pick the right shots under extreme pressure and stress.” The award for Photography in Documentary/Factual & Non Drama goes to Mark Davey for
@itvnews
at Ten
#RTSAwards
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Me and
@TomClarke_ITV
tested our pain tolerance at
@ucl
... Safe to say he lost..💪🦸♀️🙋♀️ More on
@itvnews
at 10 tonight
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Or you could just. You know. Give them a pay rise..
It's
#InternationalWomensDay
this week. To celebrate, VICE UK are letting all our female journalists leave work early.
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Yet again American broadcasters picking up on our work. This time
@RohitKachrooITV
exclusive interview with Bill Barr
Exclusive: Former US attorney general William Barr tells
@RohitKachrooITV
that questioning presidential election legitimacy 'precipitated Capitol riots'
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Whoever calls the
@itvnews
science team ‘nerds’ will have
@TomClarke_ITV
to answer to.... 🤓🥊🥊
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We spoke to Mark, from Bedford, who is in Ukraine to fight the Russians
'Someone has to stand up and I always stand up': British Army veteran heads for Kyiv
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Watch our exclusive with the Sheikh Mansur Battalion in Ukraine who are slaying Putin’s troops. Their secret underground HQ was well catered and we sat down for a brew and a biscuit before filming:
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Just drank a whole pint of milk so my flatmate couldn’t make the girl he bought home last night a coffee. They were loud. It was Thursday. 🙅♀️
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‘Just be your authentic self’ Billy Porter tells me
@itvnews
#pride
#PrideInLondon
#Pride2019
❤️🧡💛💚💜🖤
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Wrote about the best thing to happen in 2020
Donald Trump's downfall and how not to run a press conference, by ITV Washington assistant news editor
@SophieAlex1
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Thank you Fransoy, Junior, Riziki, Risi, Basil, Kwajo, Angela, Medhi, Janet, Terri, and everyone who let us into their homes to tell us their story. We’re not stopping here.
#SurvivingSqualor
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Welcome back to the UK! Where you can stand in a crowd of 100+ people! In close proximity! For over two hours! Congrats
@HeathrowAirport
on maximising the Covid risk to passengers 🇬🇧
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Ukraine is full of courageous women. Mothers determined to do whatever it takes to get their kids back from Russians. Tetiana is one such woman. Her story here:
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Just met
@caitlinmoran
and she gave me a hug and a kiss and pretended not to notice how red I went. Thrilled feminist fan girl here
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‘Pelosi, AOC, Harris, Biden, send them to the gallows’ a Trump supporter yells in front of the Capitol
#DC
#saveAmericamarch
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Eugene and Lorene Withers got married today in
#Philadelphia
They say it’s a ‘double celebration’ as they’re huge supporters of Biden and Harris 💞
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I’m back in the UK and could not be working on a more important story. People should not be forced to live like this. We are listening to you and we will fight for you.
In awe of those who’ve contacted us about their unliveable housing, fighting battles they shouldn’t have to & with great dignity
We have a special report on News at Ten including this kitchen ceiling in Birmingham which collapsed while a family were yards away in the living room
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Nothing like an early morning chat with my Grandma about freezing my eggs now I’m ‘nearly 30’ to set me up for the day. She even offered to pay.🥚🍳
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So it’s grey and rainy but in Brixton a line of traffic just stopped while these guys used the zebra crossing to cross the road ❤️
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Our report from Adiyaman in Turkey where volunteers can’t dig graves fast enough. As we filmed, body after body arrived, the air heavy with relatives screaming and crying
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One year since Four Seasons Total Landscaping and standing next to a porn shop and a crematorium for one of the final Trump press conferences.
Re-sharing the article I wrote for
@pressgazette
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Wound up in the Ferrari pit stop lane during the Monaco Grand Prix 💁♀️🏎🏎
#challengeyourimagination
#PMI
#F1
#MonacoGrandPrix
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Leafing through some old photos and came across this of my grandad in 1954, Egypt, looking like quite the dish (he’s in the middle)
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This is what a Trump 2020 press conference looks like at the moment. A podium and a few posters round the back of a landscaping company in Philly. Truly bizarre.
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She won ❤️
ITV News Health and Science Editor Emily Morgan, who died from lung cancer in May aged 45, was awarded 'Editor of the Year' at tonight's Medical Journalists' Association Awards
#MJAAwards
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My first appearance on our election podcast, discussing yesterday's attack on the Capitol.
This footage shocked the world - now hear the story of how it happened.
🇺🇸
@robertmooreitv
,
@SophieAlex1
& Mark Davey take
@DanielHewittITV
inside the Washington siege
🇺🇸
@lauraschwartz
&
@freddimbleby
assess the fallout in the US and online
LISTEN HERE:
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Crowds have flocked to Parliament in
#Tbilisi
not deterred by earlier scenes. Incredible crowd and show of strength from the Georgian people
#TbilisiProtest
#Georgia
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Our piece wouldn’t have been possible without 22-year-old campaigner Kwajo
@timelinetBACKUP
who single-handedly knocked on every door on the estate to hear people’s stories. An amazing young guy.
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Congrats
@fransoy6
without you we would all be unaware of the social housing scandal ripping through the UK. This woman is tenacious and laser-focused, politicians and housing bosses better watch their backs (esp if her and
@KwajoHousing
join forces)
2022 Fellow Fransoy Hewitt
@fransoy6
, whose powerful testimony on housing conditions in Croydon achieved national attention, will be mentored by
@vi_gayle
, health inequality reporter for
@burealocal
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The first Valentine’s Day card on record was actually a death note written in 278AD from a priest (Valentine) to his daughter before he had his head chopped off. Have a great day everyone! 🤗
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Short unseen video I took from
#January6th
last year. Gives a sense of the scale and the fury as we stood under the inauguration stage about 20 mins before rioters stormed the Capitol.
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Found another vid I took yesterday which shows how outnumbered and underprepared the police were. This was just before rioters stormed the Capitol
@itvnews
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If anyone fancies you can listen to a repeat of
@robertmooreitv
and I speaking about the Capitol insurrection and how we were the only TV crew in the world to get inside on
@BBCRadio4
today at 1630GMT (1130PST)
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Started working on this three years ago. Met some incredible guys and heard inspiring stories. First piece airs on evening news and news at 10 tonight
#itvnews
#photofromthefrontline
In 2006, ITV News filmed C Company, 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment at the start of their mission in Afghanistan as they posed for this photo.
Fifteen years since that photo was taken, we've traced the people in it to find out what happened to them.
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We’re less than 1 week into
#GE2019
and already my cameraman has advised me that if I run out of knickers I can BOIL THEM IN MY HOTEL KETTLE 🤨
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The
#Georgia
#TbilisiProtest
with
@DominicWaghorn
@CharlieBrunskil
@Tokmando
reporting live for
@SkyNews
as incredibly tense standoff continues
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We’re back in Ukraine. First stop speaking to the brave people of Kherson. What’s left of their homes is now coated in thick mud and sewage. Many cannot return. Many cannot face doing so.
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Our latest in the housing investigation. Watch News at 10 tonight for more.
“All the managers were sitting around saying, 'what are they complaining about, they've just come from huts’.”
'Helen' who works at a council housing department in London told ITV News racism is rife and tenants' complaints are often mocked or dismissed
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The night before Biden’s inauguration and the only sound in Washington DC is sirens
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.
@UNICEF
says the mass death of children is ‘inevitable’ if global aid is not received. Watch our second report from Somaliland, shot by
@DeanMassey25
:
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Our latest from Ukraine
Corr
@DominicWaghorn
Camera op and editor
@AdilBradlow
Produced by me and Azad Safarov
CCTV shows chilling moment Russian FSB agents and soldiers hunt for Ukrainian orphans
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Watch our exclusive report on News At 10. We uncover messages showing the riot at the Capitol last week was far from ‘unplanned’
@itvnews
@dan_howells
@thaitul
Exclusive: The failures behind the siege of the Capitol. Plans hatched and discussed online for all to see, warnings missed by police. We have frame-by-frame analysis of ITV News’ footage and an admission from the police chief in charge: “we didn't expect it”. News at Ten tonight
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Seven of Oxfam’s press team are ‘out of the office’ today. Convenient...
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Riley Williams is alleged to have tried to sell Nancy Pelosi’s laptop to Russia. Following our investigation she has been charged however she remains on the run.
FBI is investigating claims a pro-Trump supporter involved in the Capitol siege - and identified by ITV News - tried to sell a stolen computer to Russia, Global Security Editor
@RohitKachrooITV
has learned
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Here we are. My piece for
@IndyVoices
on the persistent questioning you get as a gay woman in public
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Wrote this: Think Gay Celebs Coming Out 'Is No Big Deal'? Then You're Part Of The Problem
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Shout out to the guy at the pub last night who pretended to be my dad to save me from being hit on by a very handsy, very drunk man 🙌
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"I was thinking he could be armed."
How ITV News crew
@robertmooreitv
&
@SophieAlex1
risked everything to follow the extremists storming Capitol Hill.
FULL INTERVIEW:
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Interviewed the Winter Olympics medalists - Lizzy Yarnold is hands down the nicest person I’ve ever spoken to. And she was repping Stonewall rainbow laces 🌈👊
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You’re welcome
The first Valentine’s Day card on record was actually a death note written in 278AD from a priest (Valentine) to his daughter before he had his head chopped off. Have a great day everyone! 🤗
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Man in Sainsbury’s is buying tinned tripe, bin bags and a cheese grater. He must be a serial killer do I call the police?
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It me
📰 NEWS: Tune-in to lunchtime news on TV today to see Prof. Nick Turner from The
@breastcancernow
Toby Robins Research Centre
@ICR_London
being filmed in his lab! More to follow ▸
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The new
#thisgirlcan
ad out uses Maya Angelou reading Phenomenal Woman as a voiceover and it will make you feel FAB
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@Kwajotweneboa
@OnlyBeingLuke
Being able to buy your house, then sell it privately for millions years later, to only be afforded by the London elite, is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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