Toast 14,847 Posted July 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said: People from the South of England doooo this to my surname as well, so thanks for drawing wider attention to this issue. I'm from the south of England though, and this is the first time I've heard Wootton pronounced that way. Or Wootton place names in the south. We say it like wool-ton without the L. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 12,180 Posted July 18, 2023 Essex here. Woot rhymes with foot, not moot. Only heard one or two weirdos say otherwise. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted July 18, 2023 Norman Rees, who travelled the globe as a reporter for ITV, has died. He was 84. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/18/norman-rees-obituary 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,691 Posted July 19, 2023 23 hours ago, TQR said: I’m loathed to put this in the ‘Journalists’ thread but if there’s a more suitable thread please move this. GBeebies presenter and right wing columnist Dan Wootton has been unmasked as a serial catfisher, bribing scores of men (many of whom are heterosexual and/or colleagues) for sexually explicit and compromising material under a false identity. He’s not been on his nightly GBeebies show for a couple of weeks. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 1,861 Posted July 19, 2023 21 hours ago, alt obits guy said: Norman Rees, who travelled the globe as a reporter for ITV, has died. He was 84. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/18/norman-rees-obituary Thanks for posting this. I remember him well, a fine correspondent, one of the old school that chased stories instead of just going on social media 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted July 27, 2023 Pat Carney, a pioneering Canadian female journalist and later Senator, has died. She was 88. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/former-senator-mp-journalist-pat-carney-is-dead-at-the-age-of-88-1.6495727 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted July 27, 2023 Iain Ferguson, a former Daily Record and Sunday Mail journalist, has died. His niece, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, has paid tribute to him. https://news.stv.tv/west-central/nicola-sturgeon-pays-tribute-to-former-daily-record-journalist-uncle-iain-ferguson-who-died-after-illness Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,098 Posted July 31, 2023 Times obit for Nicholas Harman, journalist and broadcaster who worked on Election 70, Panorama and co-presented Midweek with the redoubtable Ludovic Kennedy: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicholas-harman-obituary-6jkt2xx3l 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sly Ronnie 616 Posted July 31, 2023 8 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Times obit for Nicholas Harman, journalist and broadcaster who worked on Election 70, Panorama and co-presented Midweek with the redoubtable Ludovic Kennedy: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicholas-harman-obituary-6jkt2xx3l Notably provded the result of the first exit poll in the 1970 General Election, carried out in just one constiuency - Guildford, chosen because it was the most typical seat. The result was a Conservative win, the first indication that it was going to be Edward Heath's election win after all. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 3,478 Posted August 2, 2023 No need to consider John Humphrys for another 45 years folks... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaDeathGuy 202 Posted August 6, 2023 After years of being hounded by the FBI, American journalist Jim Larkin has committed suicide with two bullets to the back of the head. https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/backpage-exec-james-larkin-dies-by-suicide-a-week-before-trial/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,098 Posted August 9, 2023 BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell to have surgery for a brain tumour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66453430 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wannamaker 1,067 Posted August 9, 2023 2 hours ago, YoungWillz said: BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell to have surgery for a brain tumour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66453430 Is he still on the line? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted August 10, 2023 Diana Marcum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who gave a voice to Californians whom many people didn’t take time to notice, has died. She was 60. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-10/pulitzer-prize-winning-reporter-diana-marcum-obituary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted August 11, 2023 Paul Brodeur, who exposed the hazards of asbestos as a crusading environmental journalist, has died. He was 92. Brodeur was also a short story writer and novelist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/10/paul-brodeur-dead/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,085 Posted August 12, 2023 Times obit for Julian Haviland (wiki), who has died aged 93. Former political editor of ITN (1975–1981) and The Times (1981–1986). Mentioned once on the forum before by @Gooseberry Crumble. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 1,618 Posted August 14, 2023 Italian journalist and sociologist Francesco Alberoni dead at 93. Mentioned once before as a name that didn't make the final cut of the 2019 Crowdsourced Deathlist. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
La Tombe 265 Posted August 15, 2023 Just a death to report but far late, it was from june : the death of former french journalist : Claude Sarraute at 95. Journaliste very famous in France, she worked for Le Monde, then participated in the radio show : Les Grosses Têtes (RTL Radio) anchored by the famous journalist Philippe Bouvard who is 93 years by the way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
La Tombe 265 Posted August 15, 2023 And it’s not finished…I have to notice you that today, the journalist Gérard Leclerc (half-brother of the popular singer Julien Clerc) has died in a plane crash in the west of France. He was 71. This journalist worked for France television channel, then was president of the channel LCP of the National Assembly, then was a figure of the far-right channel Cnews. (Shocking, he was converting from a left journalist of France Television to a far-right journalist of Cnews). Anyways, he died in tragic circumtances, in the plane which he piloted. A this side in this crash, there were two others people whose one of both was the daughter of former president of the French Senate (Michèle Monory, daughter of René Monory). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,691 Posted August 23, 2023 On 30/10/2021 at 13:37, YoungWillz said: Charles otherwise Charlie Bird, Irish journalist diagnosed with MND: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/charlie-bird-opens-up-motor-25315481 Like Maire Mhac, bit of a punt on an Irish national, but journalist so probably get some coverage here....maybe...possibly... Has started to receive some Hospice care/help at home but still out and about doing things so not looking immediate future at least in terms of signing off Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted August 26, 2023 Yvon Pedneault, an iconic Quebec sports journalist for nearly 60 years and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame for his reporting, has died. He was 77. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sports-journalist-yvon-pedneault-dead-1.6948743 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,968 Posted September 1, 2023 Harold Briley, former BBC Latin America correspondent, who broke the news of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands, died in June, aged 92. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,968 Posted September 7, 2023 Malcolm Hay, former comedy editor & critic of Time Out magazine, has died aged 82. Also husband of Play School's Toni Arthur. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted September 7, 2023 Peter C. Newman, a prolific Canadian journalist and author who for more than a half-century unearthed revelations while chronicling power brokers on Parliament Hill and in Canadian boardrooms, has died. He was 94. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/obit-journalist-peter-c-newman-1.6959073 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted September 12, 2023 Kuljeet Kaila, a Vancouver-based broadcaster, most recently with CBC News, has died. She was 46. Kaila had been battling brain cancer. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/broadcaster-kuljeet-kaila-remembered-1.6963120 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
