Martin Fletcher
British newspaper journalist
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Martin Fletcher (born 7 July 1956) is former associate editor [1] and former foreign editor of The Times in London. [2] He was named feature writer of the year in the 2015 British Press Awards .
Biography
Fletcher was educated at Uppingham School , the University of Edinburgh and the University of Pennsylvania . [3] He has worked for The Times as a political journalist, as Washington Bureau Chief, [4] as Belfast correspondent, [5] and as Europe correspondent based in Brussels . [6] He was foreign editor from 2002 and 2006. [2] He subsequently worked as a roving correspondent specialising mostly in foreign affairs , reporting from many countries including Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Somalia, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo, [7] before becoming a freelance journalist. [8]
He was shortlisted for feature writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2016, foreign journalist of the year in the British Press Awards of 2007 and 2010, [9] travel writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2018, [10] best print journalist in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2009 and best environment story in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2014. [11]
He now writes articles for publications including the New Statesman , The Times , The Daily Telegraph , the Financial Times , Radio Times , Prospect , The Mail on Sunday , Wanderlust and Conde Nast Traveller .
He is also the author of The Good Caff Guide (Wildwood House), Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America (Little Brown) and Silver Linings: Travels around Northern Ireland (Little Brown).
Almost Heaven was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2000.
References
- ↑ The job of reporting in Gaddafi's Tripoli , The Times , 10 March 2011
- 1 2 "New foreign editor at The Times" . Press Gazette . 15 September 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011 . Retrieved 21 January 2010 .
- ↑ About Martin Fletcher (biography)
- ↑ Howard Kurtz (8 May 1994). "British Press Revels" . Retrieved 29 August 2012 .
- ↑ [ dead link ]
- ↑ "democwatch archive" . Warmwell.com . Retrieved 25 July 2012 .
- ↑ Brook, Stephen (14 September 2006). "Times fills foreign editor gap" . The Guardian . London . Retrieved 12 May 2010 .
- ↑ Greenslade, Roy (28 April 2016). "Mail Online rips off freelance journalist... yet again" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2 January 2021 .
- ↑ "British Press Awards shortlists announced" . Press Gazette . 2 March 2007. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012 . Retrieved 25 July 2012 .
- ↑ Ponsford, Dominic (26 November 2008). "Somalian journalist wins top award for Channel 4 report" . Press Gazette . Archived from the original on 10 September 2012 . Retrieved 25 July 2012 .
- ↑ "Miles Amoore FPA Feature Print Web Award Winner 2009 – social media business berkshire" . Businessinberkshire.co.uk . Retrieved 25 July 2012 .
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