Martin Fletcher

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Martin Fletcher (born 7 July 1956) is former associate editor[1] and former foreign editor of The Times,[2] a British newspaper.

He has also worked for The Times as a political journalist, as Washington Bureau Chief,[3] as Belfast correspondent,[4] and as Europe correspondent based in Brussels.[5] He was foreign editor from 2002 and 2006.[6] Since then he has 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] He was shortlisted for foreign journalist of the year in the British Press Awards of 2007 and 2010,[8] best travel article in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2008,[9] best print journalist in the Foreign Press Association awards of 2009 and best environment story in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2014.[10] He now writes articles for publications including Prospect, The Times magazine, the Daily Telegraph magazine, Radio Times, GQ, the Financial Times, 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 Cook Award 2000 .

References

  1. The job of reporting in Gaddafi's Tripoli, The Times, 10 March 2011
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