Lucy Watson is an English journalist and newsreader, who was employed by ITN for ITV News as a general news correspondent.
Career history
Watson left Daybreak to join ITN in February 2014 under the title of China Correspondent for ITV News based in Beijing.[1]
In a report covering the conflict in Ukraine, she commented that "Now the unthinkable has happened to them. This is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe." This was criticised as offensive.[2]
References
- ^ "ITV Daybreak correspondent joins ITV News". ResponseSource.
- ^ Ellison, Sarah. "'They seem so like us': In depicting Ukraine's plight, some in media use offensive comparisons". The Washington Post.