Norman Eric Webster | |
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Born |
Summerside,
Prince Edward Island, Canada | June 4, 1941
Died | November 19, 2021
Magog, Quebec, Canada | (aged 80)
Norman Eric Webster CM (June 4, 1941 – November 19, 2021) was a Canadian journalist and an editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and The Gazette. [1] He was one of the three western journalists in the Chinese capital Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in 1969. [2]
Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he was educated at Bishop's College School and received his B.A. from Bishop's University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford. He took part in the 1962 Oxford- Cambridge Tour of Poland and Czechoslovakia and was awarded a Full Blue for ice hockey in 1963 and 1964.[ citation needed] He went on to a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, editor and columnist.
In 1995, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. [3]
He died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease in Magog, Quebec, on November 19, 2021, at the age of 80. [4]