Ian Traynor

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Ian Traynor (born November 11, 1955 in Penilee , Glasgow , Scotland , United Kingdom ; † August 27, 2016 in Brussels , Belgium ) was a British journalist .

Traynor reported and commented as foreign correspondent of The Guardian about the turning points of the history of Europe after the end of the Cold War - dissolution of the Soviet Union , fall of the Berlin Wall , German reunification , rise of Solidarity in Poland , disintegration of Yugoslavia , the subsequent bloody wars that Expansion of the European Union , as well as the crises that develop from it. In 2007 he became Europe editor of The Guardian (Eng .: Head of Europe News at The Guardian ).

Life

Ian Traynor was born in Penilee, a south-west suburb of Glasgow, in 1955 to Tommy Traynor, a toolmaker and his wife Phemie (Euphemia). When Traynor was 12, his family moved to East Kilbride , South Lanarkshire and Ian attended Holy Cross Catholic High School in Hamilton . He read numerous books by George Orwell and was thus motivated to become a foreign correspondent (a newspaper ). Even at an early age of 16, he mastered Russian and German so well that he has a place of study at the University of Glasgow was given. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen where he graduated in Modern Languages . During his student days he met Jean Forsyth, whom he married in 1982 (1st marriage). The marriage had two sons - Paul and Martin. The marriage ended in divorce.

Traynor began his journalistic career in 1978 with the BBC , with the BBC Monitoring (Service), a division of the BBC in Caversham Park , near Reading, for the observation and analysis of international media in more than 150 countries with over 100 different languages. Traynor analyzed media from the former USSR . He met Martin Woollacott, the then head of The Guardian's international department , and from 1987 worked at The Guardian , initially as deputy editor (for international news). In 1988 Traynor went to Vienna as a foreign correspondent for The Guardian . In 1990 he became the Guardian's correspondent for all of Eastern Europe. From 1995 he reported first from Bonn , then from Berlin (as Germany and Central Europe correspondent for The Guardian ). In 2003 he was appointed Europe editor of the Guardian, initially based in Zagreb , Croatia , then in Brussels , Belgium . In Zagreb he also met Ivanka Anicić († 2011 in Brussels), whom he married for a second time in 2003. From this marriage a son - Sean - was born. In 2007, Traynor became the European news editor for The Guardian .

Appreciation

Jamie Wilson, director of international news at The Guardian , said of Traynor's death:

“... He was a brilliant foreign correspondent: supremely knowledgeable, always one step - but usually three - ahead of the opposition, a fantastic writer with that all too rare art of being able to pull a splash out of his back pocket on those days when there really was no news. The world will be a much poorer place without Ian reporting on it. "

“... He was a brilliant foreign correspondent: extremely knowledgeable, always one step - usually three [steps] - ahead of the others, with a fantastic writing and the far too rare ability to still have a story up his sleeve, even if at all there was no more news ... Without Ians' reports, the world will be a much poorer place. "

- Jamie Wilson

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The Guardian August 28, 2016: Ian Traynor obituary
  2. ↑ a b The Scotsman September 2, 2016: Obituary: Ian Traynor
  3. ↑ a b c The Guardian August 28, 2016: Ian Traynor, Europe editor of the Guardian, dies aged 60
  4. ↑ BBC July 7, 2016: Caversham Park: End of an era for BBC listening station
  5. ↑ Brian Rotheray: A History of Caversham Park ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cadra.org.uk
  6. ↑ The Guardian: Martin Woollacott, former Guardian correspondent
  7. ^ Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Martin Woollacott
  8. ^ The Guardian April 30, 2004: Martin Woollacott: From Vietnam to Iraq in search of the big picture
  9. ^ The Guardian - The Guardians: Ian Traynor
personal data
SURNAME Traynor, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Penilee , Glasgow , Scotland , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2016
Place of death Brussels , Belgium