Martin Fletcher

Last updated

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.

Contents

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

  1. ↑ The job of reporting in Gaddafi's Tripoli, The Times , 10 March 2011
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ About Martin Fletcher (biography)
  4. ↑ Howard Kurtz (8 May 1994). "British Press Revels". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  5. ↑ [ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "democwatch archive". Warmwell.com. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Brook, Stephen (14 September 2006). "Times fills foreign editor gap". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  8. ↑ Greenslade, Roy (28 April 2016). "Mail Online rips off freelance journalist... yet again". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "British Press Awards shortlists announced". Press Gazette. 2 March 2007. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Miles Amoore FPA Feature Print Web Award Winner 2009 – social media business berkshire". Businessinberkshire.co.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.