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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yvonne Ridley (born 1959, Stanley, County Durham, England) is a British journalist, war correspondent and Respect Party politician best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release and her outspoken opposition to Zionism and the perceived propaganda of the Western media. Ridley currently works for Press TV, the Iranian-based English language news channel. As a young girl, she already had an ambition for professional reporting. Stimulated at 14 by the publication of a letter she sent to the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle, she was determined to become a journalist. At 16, she wrote to every newspaper group in the UK and subsequently she attended a journalism course at the London College of Printing. Since then she wrote for the Sunday Times, the Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Mirror and the News Of The World and she was deputy editor of Wales on Sunday before her assignment with the Sunday Express, the tabloid that sent her to Afghanistan after 9/11.

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