Journalistic career

Pre Second World War:
Junior reporter with the Evening Argus in Sussex

Post Second World War:
Joint editor of the Oxford University Student Magazine, Isis.

Up to 1955: Worked for the Daily Mail as a sub-editor

1955 – 1967: Various posts in Northern Rhodesia and Zambia including editor of Mufulira Magazine, Central African Mail and Times of Zambia

1968 -1986:
Observer Colour Magazine editor

Observer Foreign and Commonwealth editor

Financial Times Man and Matters Diary writer

1986 – 1997:
Founder and editor of Africa Analysis, current affairs newsletter on Africa.

Read an article about the take-over of the Observer newspaper by Tiny Rowlands as a PDF