Ben Webb (journalist)

Benedict Webb (11 July 1957 – 20 November 2002), known as Ben Webb, was a Canadian journalist best known as editor of Sanity, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament monthly. After his death from cancer at 45, Britain's Guardian described him as "one of the mainstays of the left press of the 1980s and 1990s".^[1]

Webb was born in

New Democratic Party. Webb later worked in radio in Quebec and as a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Nicaragua during the Sandinista

years.

In 1984, he met Laura Jacobs, a British teacher in Managua. They moved to London and married. A son, Jacob, was born in 1986. Webb enrolled in a postgraduate international relations course at the London School of Economics and started writing for the British left press, contributing to numerous publications. He also taught at Middlesex University and the London College of Printing.

References

TheGuardian.com
. 2 December 2002.

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[1] TheGuardian.com
. 2 December 2002.

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