Martin Fletcher (born 7 July 1956) is former associate editor[1] and former foreign editor of The Times in London.[2] He was named feature writer of the year in the 2015 British Press Awards.
Biography
Fletcher was educated at Uppingham School, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Pennsylvania.[3] He has worked for The Times as a political journalist, as Washington Bureau Chief,[4] as Belfast correspondent,[5] and as Europe correspondent based in Brussels.[6] He was foreign editor from 2002 and 2006.[2] He subsequently worked as a roving correspondent specialising mostly in foreign affairs, reporting from many countries including Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Somalia, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo,[7] before becoming a freelance journalist.[8]
He was shortlisted for feature writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2016, foreign journalist of the year in the British Press Awards of 2007 and 2010,[9] travel writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2018,[10] best print journalist in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2009 and best environment story in the Foreign Press Association Awards of 2014.[11]
He is also the author of The Good Caff Guide (Wildwood House), Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America (Little Brown) and Silver Linings: Travels around Northern Ireland (Little Brown).
Almost Heaven was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2000.
