Jane Corbin

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Jane Corbin is an award-winning British journalist currently working for the BBC

Jane Corbin was educated at King's College London. Starting her career with Thames, Granada and ITN as a reporter, she moved to Channel 4 News where she covered events in India, Africa, the Far East, Europe and the US - reporting on stories such as the '84 US elections, the Gandhi assassination, famine in Africa, riots in Korea, and the Angolan civil war. Jane joined the BBC at the beginning of 1988 as a reporter on the documentary series Panorama. She was the first UK reporter to film widely in Cambodia (In The Shadow Of The Killing Fields, 1988) and reported on the BNP in Panorama: Under the Skin in 2001.

In recent years Corbin has focussed on the Middle East, making several programmes about Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terror network, as well as Saddam Hussein, including being one of the first to report on the capture of Saddam Hussein and the killing of his sons.

She is now regarded as one of the foremost commentators on al-Qaeda, and has written a book "The Base: In search of al-Qaeda" was published in the summer of 2001 in the UK, the United States (entitled "Al-Qaeda") and in Europe.

She has also presented the BBC's financial magazine programme The Money Programme.

Jane Corbin has four times won a Royal Television Society journalism award - in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1994.^[1] She has won other television awards and been nominated several times for an Emmy Award for best investigative international journalism.^[1]

Jane Corbin married the Conservative politician John Maples in December 1986.