Michael McCarthy (journalist)

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Michael McCarthy
Bornc.1947
Birkenhead, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist and author
Known forWritings relating to natural history
Notable work
Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo

Michael McCarthy is a British environmentalist, naturalist, newspaper journalist, newspaper columnist, and author.

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He was born in Birkenhead, Wirral c.1947, the son of John and Norah McCarthy. He studied Modern Languages at the University of Liverpool.

He worked as a journalist first on the Bolton Evening News and then on the Daily Mirror . After 17 years in local and tabloid journalism, he moved first to The Times , then to The Independent on Sunday , and then to The Independent ; he worked 27 years for those broadsheet newspapers. He was Environment Editor of The Independent until 2013, and as of July 2015 is its Environment Columnist. [1] [2]

He was the driving force behind a campaign by The Independent to identify the reasons for the decline of the British urban House sparrow; but the £5,000 prize offered by that newspaper has as of July 2015 not been awarded. [3]

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