Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | |
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| Born | 7 December 1957 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, writer |
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (born 7 December 1957) is the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph.
Early life
Evans-Pritchard was born in Oxford. He was educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History.[1] His father was E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who was Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University from 1946 to 1970.
Career
For thirty years, Evans-Pritchard has "covered world politics and economics" for the Telegraph, "based in Europe, the US, and Latin America".[2]
In the mid-1980s, he was Washington correspondent for London's Spectator and was a Central America correspondent for The Economist. In 1991, he began working at the Daily Telegraph, where he was the newspaper's Europe correspondent in Brussels from 1999 to 2004.[2] He also served as Sunday Telegraph's Washington, D.C. bureau chief from the early 1990s until 1997.[2]
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
Evans-Pritchard is the author of a 1997 biography of Bill Clinton, entitled The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories which was published by conservative publishing firm Regnery Publishing.[3] In 1997 Salon called him "The Pied Piper of the Clinton Conspiracists" in a review that said Evans-Pritchard wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theory as well as other conspiracy theories related to Clinton, including the death of Vince Foster.[4]
While working as the Telegraph Washington correspondent, his reports about these issues often attracted the ire of the Clinton administration. When he left Washington, a White House aide was quoted in George saying, "That's another British invasion we're glad is over. The guy was nothing but a pain in the ass". His efforts in ferreting out the witness, Patrick Knowlton, whose last name had been spelled "Nolton" in the Park Police report on Foster's death, resulted eventually in a lawsuit by Knowlton against the FBI and the inclusion of Knowlton's lawyer's letter as an appendix to Kenneth Starr's report on Foster's death.[5] In his book, Evans-Pritchard responded vigorously to White House charges against him.
Evans-Pritchard discussed his coverage of the alleged conspiracy in the 2022 BBC Radio Four programme The Coming Storm.[6] In a Telegraph article published shortly afterwards, he revealed his dissatisfaction with the programme, jibing at its portrayal of him as a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" who wilfully nourished conspiracy theories and condemning it for refusing to acknowledge that "[it] was the failure of the co-opted White House press corps and those on the FBI beat – or, in some cases, their editors – to investigate and report serial misconduct in the early 1990s that fed mistrust of establishment media, leaving the field open for talk radio and the emerging anarchy of the web". Such unbalanced treatment, he went on to argue, is a revealing insight into "the mental universe of the BBC, a taxpayer-funded institution accused by many of chronic ideological bias in breach of its charter."[7]
References
- ^ 'Cambridge Tripos results', The Guardian, 21 June 1979, p. 4.
- ^ a b c "Ambrose Evans-Pritchard". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose (25 November 1997). The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Regnery Publishing. p. 460. ISBN 9780895264084. OCLC 243891962.
- ^ "The Pied Piper of the Clinton Conspiracists". Salon. 23 December 1997. Archived from the original on 25 November 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
- ^ Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr.; Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, p. 159
- ^ The Coming Storm, Episode 1, "The Dead Body", from 16m20s, released 4 Jan 2022, accessed 25 Jan 2022
- ^ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, 'Despite what you've heard, I didn't load the gun for the Capitol Hill attack', The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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