Hella Pick, pictured in 2017, ‘was a giant of 20th century British journalism but in a class of her own’.Hella Pick, pictured in 2017, ‘was a giant of 20th century British journalism but in a class of her own’.Hella Pick, the Guardian’s esteemed and pioneering former foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor, has died at the age of 96.
“When she started out, there were very few women foreign correspondents, but she soon won the admiration and respect of colleagues both within the Guardian and in the wider world. Her personal history as a refugee from the Nazis shaped her life. That she was still working up until a few weeks ago is a testament to her dedication and grit.”
“When I started work, women who were doing any kind of political foreign affairs reporting were really very, very thin on the ground,” she said in “She knew senior figures from the chancelleries of capitals on both sides of the iron curtain, and used her imperious presence and huge charm to great effect to provide the Guardian with fine coverage of those fraught days. She was both grand and generous in equal measure, and a much-admired part of the Guardian’s coverage during the final tumultuous days of the cold war.”
Pick’s 2021 memoir was a “book of great power and honesty, packed with vivid detail of her reporting adventures”, wrote the BBC veteran foreign correspondent “She was probably the oldest working journalist in the UK, and was deeply engaged with the world, even as she was leaving it. The days before her death, weak and in hospital, she still wanted to talk about her horror at the situation in Gaza and her fear for Ukraine’s future, with Europe and America distracted and divided.
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