Robert Fisk (1870 - 1917)

Robert Fisk, a world-renowned Middle East correspondent for London Independent, was The Times Belfast correspondent from 1971 to 1975, and Middle East correspondent from 1976 to 1987. He has covered wars in Bosnia and Algeria, the NATO war with Yugoslavia, the Palestinian Intifadas, and the current war in Iraq. He was the winner of the Amnesty International U.K. Press Awards for his reports and articles and received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times.