Maggie Fox
George Short
Sunday 06 March 2011
I don't know if there are any other examples like that [● George Short], but there should be. It was George and some of the other old-timey dinosaurs who taught me how to do a proper lunch at 85 Fleet Street – stroll to the pub, down as many pints as you could in an hour, grab a sandwich and eat it at your desk while subbing all the sober hacks' copy.
George was the best teacher ever!
Maggie Fox
George was the best teacher ever!
Maggie Fox
Richard Williams
Sunday 06 March 2011
Oh, that can't be [● Obituary: Richard Williams]. What sad news. Richard was a delight to work with and clearly was far too young.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox
David Nicholson
Wednesday 05 August 2009
Dave Nicholson was one of the true original dinosaurs who taught so many of us how to do it right on the old World Desk at 85 Fleet Street. He made those long night shifts a lot less scary with his impressive imitation of a Mets radio announcer – a welcome bit of Americana for a young expat in London. The occasional friendly pint at the Punch never hurt, either. I managed to get one down for his every three, I think.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox
David Mathew
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Dave Mathew still epitomizes what I most admire about copy editors. He was a human spell-checker and could find any inconsistency in any story. He had a gentle hand with young sub-editors such as myself on the London World Desk, calling quiet attention to the idiotic changes I had made to innocent correspondents’ copy. He was the kind of journalist you want to be like. To this day I tell anyone who will listen about the example he set.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox
