Trail Blazer: The 105 Year Old Journalist Who Broke Glass Ceilings
Trail Blazer: The 105 Year Old Journalist Who Broke Glass Ceilings
October 13, 2016
At age 105, Clare Hollingworth is no longer traveling the world as the pioneering female foreign correspondent she once was. But in addition to celebrating her remarkable age, it’s important to celebrate the career of this journalist who not only reported on great moments of history but who herself was an actor on the world stage. Credited as being the first journalist to report on the beginning of World War II, Hollingworth was responsible for the evacuation of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe into Britain. She was also on hand to cover the brutal Algerian War and to reveal the spy role of Kim Philby. A pretty remarkable life for a farm girl born in 1911 in rural England. To read a moving tribute to this amazing woman, Read Here.