One of Britain’s most respected journalists and the crusading editor of The Sunday Times for 14 years, Harold Evans brought a new style of investigative reporting to his country and focused the attention of his readers on the plight of Thalidomide victims. The drug brought birth defects to thousands of newly born babies around the […]

Hubert Beuve-Méry, the “grand old man of French journalism,” was the founder of Le Monde, France’s leading daily and a household name throughout the world. Asked by General Charles de Gaulle to set up a newspaper of reference after the country’s liberation from German occupation in 1944, Beuve-Méry’s commitment to independence led him into frequent […]

Nuno Rocha, editor of the liberal national daily, Diário de Lisboa, at the time of the sudden collapse of the old right-wing regime in April 1974 and its replacement by a left-wing Supreme Revolutionary Council, played a significant role in defending press freedom in Portugal during the heady days of that country’s revolution. Nuno Augusto […]

Jiri Dienstbier was a foreign policy commentator for Czechoslovak Radio before Warsaw Pact forces invaded his country in 1968, after which he was forced to work as an archivist, a night watchman and a boiler attendant to make a living. From 1969 until the fall of the communist regime in 1989, he published underground, or […]