Alok Jha
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Alok Jha is best known for being a science correspondent on ITV News.
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Alok Jha was a reporter at the Guardian from 2003 working on the environment and science desks. In 2014 he became the science correspondent at ITV News.
Biography:
Alok Jha was a reporter at the Guardian from 2003 working on the environment and science desks. In 2014 he became the science correspondent at ITV News.
At The Guardian, Alok spent the last decade reporting around the world on a range of major stories, from his exclusive on the world’s first lab-grown hamburger to stem cell biology and Higgs Boson. As well as writing for the paper, Alok set up and edited The Guardian’s science website, presenting the Science Weekly podcast and producing regular films, including Antarctica Live. When his ship got unexpectedly caught in sea ice over Christmas, Alok reported live, over two months, for a number of international broadcasters, including CNN, NBC and ABC.
Alok has presented and reported for a number of BBC TV and radio programmes, including Dara O’Briain’s Science Club on BBC2, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also written two books; The Doomsday Handbook – 50 Ways to the End of the World and How to Live Forever and 34 Really Interesting Uses of Science. His third book, on the cultural and scientific biography of water, will be published next year.
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