Brian Hitchen
Brian Hitchen CBE | |
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Born | Chadderton, Lancashire, England | 8 July 1936
Died | 2 December 2013 near Alicante, Spain | (aged 77)
Occupation | Journalist |
Brian Hitchen,
Hitchen began his career with the Daily Despatch in Manchester as a copyboy, and then joined the Bury Times as a trainee reporter a year later.[2] His national service followed in which he served in the Parachute Regiment during 1954–56.[3] After national service, following a year on the Manchester Evening News, he began his national newspaper career when he joined the Daily Mirror in their Manchester office. In 1963 he became their foreign correspondent in Paris, and then from 1965 to 1972, he reported from all over the world for the Mirror.[3]
In 1965 he was sent to cover the
Hitchen edited the
In 2013, an incident with a motorist while crossing the road near Alicante, Spain, led to Hitchen's wife being killed instantly, while Hitchen himself died from his injuries a few hours later.[4]
Hitchen was appointed a
References
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ a b Obituary: Brian Hitchen, telegraph.co.uk, 3 December 2013
- ^ a b c Dennis Griffiths (ed) The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422–1992, London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.311
- ^ a b c Roy Greenslade "Former Star editor Brian Hitchen and wife killed in Spanish road accident". The Guardian (blog). Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "Inside Story: The ex-editors' files", The Independent, 9 May 2005
- ^ "No. 52371". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 December 1990. p. 19582.