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Letitia Fitzpatrick [1] (born 23 January 1962, Belfast) [2] is a journalist.

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Fitzpatrick has worked for as a journalist for the Irish News, BBC NI, UTV and ACM.

Career

Fitzpatrick was a reporter for the Irish News in Belfast from 1983 to 1988. She worked as a journalist for BBC Northern Ireland from 1988 to 1997. She then joined UTV and worked there for 12 years, as a senior TV journalist and presenter.

She did voluntary work for the Northern Ireland Cancer Network. [3]

Between 2009 and 2015, Fitzpatrick worked for Citybeat radio and for the BBC as a freelance journalist on Panorama , Spotlight , The One Show and Children in Need .

She worked as a senior journalist for ACM.

In 2018, Fitzpatrick was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship from Wauchope Rotary. [4]

Personal life

Fitzpatrick has two adult children from her first marriage. Her second husband died in 2007.

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References

  1. Belfast Telegraph: "Losing Johnny and my fight with depression": dated 23 October 2007; accessed 6 February 2009
  2. WebArchive.org: Letitia Fitzpatrick's profile on U.tv; captured 18 November 2002, accessed 5 April 2009
  3. "Letitia's story | Northern Ireland Cancer Network". Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  4. "Gazette journalist presented Rotary's top honour". Portnews.com.au. 28 June 2018.