Richard Norton-Taylor
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| Richard Norton-Taylor | |
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| Born | Richard Seymour Norton-Taylor 4 June 1944 |
| Education | Hertford College (University of Oxford) |
| Occupation | Editor, journalist and playwright |
| Spouse | Anna C. Rendle (married 1967) |
Richard Norton-Taylor (born 6 June 1944) is a British editor, journalist and playwright.
He is a security-affairs editor of the British newspaper The Guardian.
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[edit] Early life and education
He was born Richard Seymour Norton-Taylor to Lt. Seymour Norton-Taylor, R.A. and Gweneth Joan Powell (died 9 January 1978).
Norton-Taylor was educated at Kings School, located in Canterbury, Kent, and Hertford College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, located in Oxford.
[edit] Career
He was European Community and Brussels, Belgium, correspondent for both The Washington Post and Newsweek between 1967 and 1975, while also contributing to The Economist and the Financial Times.
Norton-Taylor joined The Guardian in 1975, concentrating on Whitehall, official secrecy, and behind-the-scenes decision-making.
He has written several plays based on transcripts of public inquiries including The Colour of Justice (1999) based on the hearing of the MacPherson Inquiry on the police conduct of the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and Justifying War: Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry (2003).
Norton-Taylor is a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute.
He is a trustee of the Civil Liberties Trust and the London Action Trust.
[edit] Awards
Norton-Taylor won the 1986 Freedom of Information Campaign award, and the same year was prevented by a court injunction from reporting the contents of Spycatcher (1987), the memoirs of the former MI5 agent, Peter Wright. The government's injunction was dismissed in the High Court by Lord Justice Scott.
He was one of the few journalists to cover the Scott inquiry from start to finish. His play, Half the Picture, based on the inquiry, received a 1994 Time Out Drama, Comedy and Dance award for its "brave initiative".
[edit] Personal life
In 1967, he married Anna C. Rendle, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rendle, of The Wings, Kemerton, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.[1]
[edit] See also
- British playwrights since 1950
- List of English writers
- List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth
- List of people from Kent
- List of University of Oxford people
[edit] References
- ^ The Times. 16 June 1967. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/647/691/122304389w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS201944272&dyn=212!xrn_31_0_CS201944272&hst_1?sw_aep=kccl. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
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