St. Margaret of Antioch, Bygrave, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation
Journalist
Years active
1939–1981
Known for
Being the first journalist to report the outbreak of World War II
Spouses
Vandeleur Robinson
(m. 1936; div. 1951)
Geoffrey Hoare
(m. 1951; died 1965)
Clare HollingworthOBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".[1] As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border"; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.[2]
Hollingworth was appointed OBE by Elizabeth II for "services to journalism" in 1982.[3] She died on 10 January 2017 at the age of 105.[4][5][6]
^"Clare Hollingworth: British war correspondent dies aged 105". BBC News. 10 January 2017.
^Fox, Margalit (10 January 2017). "Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^"Who was Clare Hollingworth and what was her 'scoop of the century'?". Metro. 10 October 2017.
^"Celebrated war reporter Clare Hollingworth dies aged 105". The Guardian. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
^"Legendary War Correspondent Clare Hollingworth Dies at 105". Time. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
^Connor, Neil; Fenton, Anna Healy; Rothwell, James; Foster, Peter (10 January 2017). "Clare Hollingworth dies aged 105: Telegraph correspondent who broke the news of World War II passes away in Hong Kong". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
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