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Veteran journalist Paul Foot dies
Campaigning journalist Paul Foot has died aged 66.
The former Private Eye, Daily Mirror and Guardian journalist was known for his left-wing politics and campaigns against miscarriages of justice.
"He was a one-off, and we'll miss him terribly," said Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Mr Foot, the nephew of former Labour leader Michael Foot, is understood to have died of a heart attack, said Private Eye editor Ian Hislop. Mr Foot was married with three sons and a daughter.
Mr Hislop said: "He was a tremendous journalist and he will be a huge loss."
Paying tribute to the award-winning journalist, Mr Rusbridger described his work as "fearless and frequently funny". He said: "Paul came to the Guardian as an exile from Robert Maxwell. His column was - of course - politically committed. He pioneered the art of the investigative column, ferreting facts out of the unlikeliest places and knitting them into a commentary."
Mr Foot had also written several books, including Who Killed Hanratty, and Red Shelley and had published a collection of his columns, Articles of Resistance. His other publications include Murder at the Farm: who killed Carl Bridgewater?, Why You Should Be a Socialist, and The Politics of Harold Wilson.
Mr Foot's political life saw him stand as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the 2002 election for Mayor of Hackney in London. He came third after Labour and the Conservatives. In the same year, Mr Foot rallied protesters against the war in Iraq and dismissed talk of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction as "piffle".
Mr Foot began working for the satirical magazine Private Eye in 1993. He had previously edited the Socialist Worker from 1974 to1975 and worked for the Daily Mirror between 1979 and 1993.
He was Journalist of the Year in the What The Papers Say Awards in 1972 and 1989, Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the 1980 British Press Awards and won the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1994.
Veteran journalist Paul Foot dies
Campaigning journalist Paul Foot has died aged 66.
The former Private Eye, Daily Mirror and Guardian journalist was known for his left-wing politics and campaigns against miscarriages of justice.
"He was a one-off, and we'll miss him terribly," said Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Mr Foot, the nephew of former Labour leader Michael Foot, is understood to have died of a heart attack, said Private Eye editor Ian Hislop. Mr Foot was married with three sons and a daughter.
Mr Hislop said: "He was a tremendous journalist and he will be a huge loss."
Paying tribute to the award-winning journalist, Mr Rusbridger described his work as "fearless and frequently funny". He said: "Paul came to the Guardian as an exile from Robert Maxwell. His column was - of course - politically committed. He pioneered the art of the investigative column, ferreting facts out of the unlikeliest places and knitting them into a commentary."
Mr Foot had also written several books, including Who Killed Hanratty, and Red Shelley and had published a collection of his columns, Articles of Resistance. His other publications include Murder at the Farm: who killed Carl Bridgewater?, Why You Should Be a Socialist, and The Politics of Harold Wilson.
Mr Foot's political life saw him stand as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the 2002 election for Mayor of Hackney in London. He came third after Labour and the Conservatives. In the same year, Mr Foot rallied protesters against the war in Iraq and dismissed talk of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction as "piffle".
Mr Foot began working for the satirical magazine Private Eye in 1993. He had previously edited the Socialist Worker from 1974 to1975 and worked for the Daily Mirror between 1979 and 1993.
He was Journalist of the Year in the What The Papers Say Awards in 1972 and 1989, Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the 1980 British Press Awards and won the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1994.
