Norman Webster
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Norman Eric Webster Template:Postnominals (June 4, 1941 – November 19, 2021) was a Canadian journalist and an editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and The Gazette.[1] He was one of the three western journalists in the Chinese capital Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in 1969.[2]
Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he was educated at Bishop's College School and received his B.A. from Bishop's University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford. He took part in the 1962 Oxford-Cambridge Tour of Poland and Czechoslovakia and was awarded a Full Blue for ice hockey in 1963 and 1964.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He went on to a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, editor and columnist.
In 1995, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[3]
He died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease in Magog, Quebec, on November 19, 2021, at the age of 80.[4]
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- ↑ Webster, N. (2009, October 02). Norman Webster, Sept. 30, 1969 - July 8, 1971. Retrieved November 03, 2020, from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/norman-webster-sept-30-1969---july-8-1971/article1203350/
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- 1941 births
- 2021 deaths
- Members of the Order of Canada
- People from Summerside, Prince Edward Island
- Writers from Prince Edward Island
- Bishop's College School alumni
- Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
- Canadian columnists
- Canadian newspaper editors
- Canadian male journalists
- The Globe and Mail editors
- Montreal Gazette people
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford