Bibliogryphon 9,582 Posted May 18, 2021 11 hours ago, Boring Bob said: How exactly is starring out their surnames of any use here? The first one presumably Martin Bashir, the second one answers on a postcard. I'm sure you have your reasons, but these are BBC journalists, so seems odd to censor names. Anyway, good deadpoolers spotted this three weeks ago https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19262561.martin-bell-hosts-private-talk-blind-veterans/ There was no attempt to censor the names I was just drawing attention to the similarities between them. I trusted in the ability of the other intelligent deadpoolers to be able to do the mental gymnastics to identify who I was talking about 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted May 26, 2021 On 11/05/2021 at 09:46, Spade_Cooley said: Critic/biographer/documentarian/all-round arts-writer Kevin Jackson reported dead at 66 on Twitter. Guardian obit. Telegraph obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 1, 2021 Jacques Lacoursiere, a noted Canadian TV host, author and historian, has died. He was 89. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-historian-and-broadcaster-jacques-lacoursiere-dies-at-89-1.5451722 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,887 Posted June 6, 2021 On 17/05/2021 at 21:56, msc said: Blimey, looking it up, age has caught up with Martin Bell in a hurry. He was looking like he did in the 90s 18 months or so ago. Just on the TV there at the D-Day remembrance. Doesn't sound or look great. Wonder has he had an unpublicised stroke in the last 18 months or so 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cerberus 302 Posted June 8, 2021 I mentioned him yesterday in the cricket thread, but for the sake of completeness, David Foot's Guardian obit here: David Foot obituary | Cricket | The Guardian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 8, 2021 While we're discussing the state of the race, here's an update from Gary Burgess from a month ago: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/voices/2021/05/10/giving-advice-to-the-dying-isnt-as-simple-as-it-seems/ He "uses social media to appear busier than he is". He's in chemo every day of the week. He's ordered his affairs and his will. He's at the low end of his given life expectancy but tries everything to smash the upper end (i.e. 12 months that take him to November). His visible activity might be deceptive, on purpose. I assume he'll tell when the chemo stops working, which could be tomorrow....or not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zsa Zsa's leg 884 Posted June 14, 2021 Christiane Amanpour diagnosed with ovarian cancer 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 20, 2021 English local journalist with a bit of BBC recognition, George Makin, dead just a few weeks after announcing his illness: https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/brilliant-local-democracy-reporter-dies-weeks-after-cancer-diagnosis/ Four days after his first vaccination shot. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,102 Posted June 20, 2021 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: Four days after his first vaccination shot. Conspiracy theorists about to go into meltdown. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted June 20, 2021 2 hours ago, gcreptile said: English local journalist with a bit of BBC recognition, George Makin, dead just a few weeks after announcing his illness: https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/brilliant-local-democracy-reporter-dies-weeks-after-cancer-diagnosis/ Four days after his first vaccination shot. It actually says that he received his diagnosis four days after receiving his first coronavirus vaccination. Not that he died four days after it. Reporter diagnosed with terminal illness days after getting coronavirus jab Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 20, 2021 13 minutes ago, Toast said: It actually says that he received his diagnosis four days after receiving his first coronavirus vaccination. Not that he died four days after it. Reporter diagnosed with terminal illness days after getting coronavirus jab Damn, that's more boring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted June 20, 2021 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: Damn, that's more boring. Yeah, somebody's going to be disappointed. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,472 Posted June 26, 2021 Long time Herald columnist Fidelma Cook, who some of you were no doubt tracking for the DDP, has died of a heart attack while receiving cancer treatment, aged 71. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 26, 2021 44 minutes ago, msc said: Long time Herald columnist Fidelma Cook, who some of you were no doubt tracking for the DDP, has died of a heart attack while receiving cancer treatment, aged 71. Scottish journalists? Would have been another unique pick for you. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,602 Posted June 28, 2021 Former Mirror Group editor and founder of Pride of Britain Awards, Peter Willis has died suddenly. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,196 Posted July 5, 2021 The great spanish journalist Tico Medina dies at 86. Indisputable teacher of journalists and unique communicator: https://digismak.com/spanish-journalist-tico-medina-dies/ Between his awards, Medina has been graced with two Ondas Awards and a Golden Antenna. He has also been an honorary academic at the Granada Academy of Good Letters. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,472 Posted July 11, 2021 Deborah James, who I am salvaging from the OFFBI thread given she is a journalist and was pre-illness so let's not jump the shark. Anyhow, her cancer has started spreading again , and last week she had to have emergency surgery after suffering liver failure, and her medication started to fail. She now has cancer in the liver, guts, lungs and bones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,416 Posted July 15, 2021 Dawn Foster, British journalist, has died aged 34. Quite prominent on Twitter and often on Sky/BBC paper reviews. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinegar Tits 606 Posted July 15, 2021 21 minutes ago, Thatcher said: Dawn Foster, British journalist, has died aged 34. Quite prominent on Twitter and often on Sky/BBC paper reviews. I know she had all kinds of ailments, plus recently had a serious fall, but that's a shocker. I once had a spat with her on Twitter over an expensive jumper (don't ask...) and rarely agreed with her politically, but 34 is no age. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted July 15, 2021 5 minutes ago, Vinegar Tits said: I know she had all kinds of ailments, plus recently had a serious fall, but that's a shocker. I once had a spat with her on Twitter over an expensive jumper (don't ask...) and rarely agreed with her politically, but 34 is no age. Under our radars it seems, but not yours.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinegar Tits 606 Posted July 15, 2021 32 minutes ago, Thatcher said: Dawn Foster, British journalist, has died aged 34. Quite prominent on Twitter and often on Sky/BBC paper reviews. She was never going to make old bones, but I didn't know much about her recent ailments as I unfollowed her on Twitter a few years ago. She was somebody I would have kept an eye on had her health suddenly taken a turn for the worse (which it obviously, umm, did) but otherwise wouldn't have considered her for a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted July 15, 2021 At least she’ll get a good rodgering from Andy Fordham as she ascends on the golden escalator. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,738 Posted July 16, 2021 Danish Siddiqui, Indian photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 as part of the Reuters Photography staff (therefore not a scavenger hunt miss, I think) has apparently died aged around 40-41 while covering the conflict in Afghanistan: https://scroll.in/latest/1000363/reuters-photojournalist-danish-siddiqui-killed-in-afghanistan-clashes 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted July 18, 2021 Scottish journalist Ally McLaws had problems with his treatment which had been working well so far. They now have to set him up on a different treatment. https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/19450730.ally-mclaws---living-cancer-pandemic-feared-happened-now-last-line-defense/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,738 Posted July 19, 2021 70s-80s Swedish sports journalist Tommy Engstrand dead from COPD: https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/tommy-engstrand-dod-blev-81-ar-gammal 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
