Martin Fletcher

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Martin Fletcher (born 7 July 1956) is former associate editor[https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/the-job-of-reporting-in-gaddafis-tripoli-5z72jqbcdcd The job of reporting in Gaddafi's Tripoli], The Times, 10 March 2011 and former foreign editor of The Times in London.{{cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=35651§ioncode=1|title=New foreign editor at The Times|work=Press Gazette|date=15 September 2006|accessdate=21 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616101600/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=35651§ioncode=1|archive-date=16 June 2011|url-status=dead}} 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.[http://www.martinanthonyfletcher.com/ About Martin Fletcher (biography)] He has worked for The Times as a political journalist, as Washington Bureau Chief,{{cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-05-08/lifestyle/9405050550_1_clinton-enemies-president-clinton-arkansas-state|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004222042/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-05-08/lifestyle/9405050550_1_clinton-enemies-president-clinton-arkansas-state|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2013|title=British Press Revels|accessdate=29 August 2012|date=8 May 1994|author=Howard Kurtz}} as Belfast correspondent,[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-69279080.html]{{dead link|date=July 2012}} and as Europe correspondent based in Brussels.{{cite web|url=http://www.warmwell.com/democarchive.html |title=democwatch archive |publisher=Warmwell.com |accessdate=25 July 2012}} He was foreign editor from 2002 and 2006. 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,{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/sep/14/pressandpublishing.thetimes |work=The Guardian| location=London | title=Times fills foreign editor gap | first=Stephen | last=Brook | date=14 September 2006 | accessdate=12 May 2010}} before becoming a freelance journalist.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/28/mail-online-rips-off-freelance-journalist-yet-again|title=Mail Online rips off freelance journalist... yet again|work=The Guardian|first=Roy|last=Greenslade|date=28 April 2016|accessdate=2 January 2021}}

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,{{cite web |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=36940§ioncode=1 |title=British Press Awards shortlists announced |work=Press Gazette|date=2 March 2007 |accessdate=25 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910144846/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=36940§ioncode=1 |archive-date=10 September 2012 |url-status=dead }} travel writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2018,{{cite web |last=Ponsford |first=Dominic |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=42530 |title=Somalian journalist wins top award for Channel 4 report |work=Press Gazette|date=26 November 2008 |accessdate=25 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910144904/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=42530 |archive-date=10 September 2012 |url-status=dead }} best print journalist in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2009 and best environment story in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinberkshire.co.uk/businessinberkshire/news127.html |title=Miles Amoore FPA Feature Print Web Award Winner 2009 – social media business berkshire |publisher=Businessinberkshire.co.uk |accessdate=25 July 2012}}

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

External links

[http://www.martinanthonyfletcher.com Official website]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110916143654/http://journalisted.com/martin-fletcher-1 Column archive] at Journalisted

Category:1956 births

Category:Living people

Category:British male journalists

Category:People educated at Uppingham School