Jonah Fisher

Jonah Fisher is the first resident Correspondent for the BBC in Myanmar. Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC Global News, said: “The appointment of Jonah Fisher marks another important milestone in the rapid welcome changes taking place in Burma/Myanmar. Censorship and repression are being replaced with a new media environment where the BBC can freely broadcast trusted and impartial news. The BBC's charity BBC Media Action will continue its work to help train the next generation of Burma/Myanmar journalists which will further contribute to the country’s transition towards media freedom. These investments are part of our commitment to our audiences in Burma/Myanmar and we look forward to covering the historic elections in 2015.” In February 2017, he attracted attention for his alleged arrogance and rude behavior when questioning a group of monks in Yangon, Myanmar.

Jonah Fisher is a Correspondent for BBC News and its first resident Correspondent for Myanmar. Jonah Fisher is an experienced BBC Correspondent and during an eventful 10 years working for the BBC has been based in Eritrea, Sudan, London, South Africa, Nigeria and most recently, Thailand. He has worked on many features for the BBC including: interviewing Buddhist monk Wirathu and members of Burma's Muslim community who have been caught up in clashes with Buddhist nationalists in 2013, accompanying Greenpeace tracking whales hunted by the Japanese whaling fleet; and violence against journalists by Sudanese security forces outside Khartoum, Sudan where he was attacked. From 2012 to 2014, Fisher was the BBC's Correspondent in Bangkok where he covered anti-government protesters in Bangkok as demonstrators try to unseat the Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.