Tributes have been paid to Martin Woollacott, the Guardian’s former foreign correspondent and foreign editor, who has died at the age of 81. Woollacott joined the Guardian in 1968 as a London-based reporter, and later covered the Vietnam war, the Lebanese civil war and the Iranian revolution. In 1985 he was appointed as the paper’s foreign editor, a role he held for six years. Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, said: “Martin was a proud Mancunian, a legendary reporter from Vietnam to Kurdistan, a great foreign editor and an authoritative foreign affairs commentator. He inspired great loyalty amongst his colleagues during his time as foreign editor, and in turn was utterly loyal to the values of the Guardian.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2021 15:56 UTC