Martin Fletcher

This article is about the newspaper journalist. For the television journalist, see Martin Fletcher (TV reporter).

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

  1. ^ The job of reporting in Gaddafi's Tripoli, The Times, 10 March 2011
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ [1][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.


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