Lizzie Phelan

Lizzie Phelan is a British war correspondent who is the managing director of redfish GmbH, a Berlin-based media company owned by Ruptly that focuses on creating short documentaries. Phelan was formerly employed as a reporter by RT, and specialises in reporting as a war correspondent, having reported on the First Libyan Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, and war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Personal Elizabeth Cocker took the name Phelan from her Irish grandmother and uses it for her professional work.

Career She first worked for the Daily Mail for experience before leaving after a few months for the Morning Star, under the byline Lizzie Cocker.

Reporting from Libya She was among the western journalists held captive by pro-Qaddafi forces during the siege of the Rixos hotel in the hours prior to the fall of Tripoli.

British regulatory response to reporting In September 2012, UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, found that two Libyan dispatches broadcast by Phelan on RT in August 2011 were in breach of its code on accuracy and impartiality.

The channel responded to Ofcom's allegations insisting that "subsequent developments of the situation in Libya did however confirm", in their opinion "that Lizzie Phelan was correct in her assertions", referring to reports of civilian casualties by opposition and NATO forces by Amnesty International and the International Rescue Committee. Phelan has worked for Press TV as a correspondent in Libya and then in Nicaragua. The Guardian said her Libyan reporting was "controversial".