Veronica Pedrosa
Journalist, Al Jazeera/ BBC/ CNN
Veronica Pedrosa is an award-winning presenter with more than 20 years experience in news reporting, production and presenting. She has worked as a journalist at Al Jazeera English, CNN International, BBC World News, and BBC World Service.
Veronica is an award-winning reporter with a proven track record in covering major global news stories and events, conducting incisive, news-making interviews, driving fresh lines and pitching and uncovering new stories from various sources. As an experienced broadcast reporter, Veronica is skilled in visual-storytelling, turning packages, filing live reports, writing blogs and other online content on diverse issues ranging from exclusive investigative stories to financial news and lighter features from the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as engaging on social media, sharing news and on-the-spot information, especially on Twitter with more than 10,000 followers.
As someone who is deeply knowledgeable about global issues, Veronica is frequently hired to host and moderate panel discussions at high-level conferences and meetings on complex and sensitive issues such as climate change, pollution and sustainable development by the United Nations, the Red Cross Movement, the European Union. She is also an experienced communications consultant for humanitarian organisations in emergency situations.
Listen to Episode 21 Media Spectacle & Democracy in The Philippines