# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:45:58.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cole"
name: "John Cole"
slug: "john-cole"
description: "John Morrison Cole was a Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster, best known for his work with the BBC. Cole served as deputy editor of The Guardian and The Observer and, from 1981 to 1992, was the BBC's political editor. Donald Macintyre, in an obituary in The Independent, described him as \"the most recognisable and respected broadcast political journalist since World War II.\""
tagline: "British journalist and broadcaster (1927–2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/John_Cole_BBC.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1927-11-23"
deathDate: "2013-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.818612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1938977/"
    handle:    "nm1938977"
sources:
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    title: "John Cole (journaliste)"
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    title: "جون كول (صحفي)"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "جون كول (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cole_(novin%C3%A1%C5%99)"
    title: "John Cole (novinář)"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cole"
    title: "John Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cole_(journalist)"
    title: "John Cole (journalist)"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6226613"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "John Cole"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump