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Clare Hollingworth

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British journalist (1911-2017)

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Clare Hollingworth was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".

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1994James Cameron Memorial Trust Award
1962Hannen Swaffer Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Clare Hollingworth was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century". As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border"; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.

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United Kingdom
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1911 to 2017 · aged 105
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