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Alan HoweHistory and Obituaries Editor

Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title and achieved the greatest margin between competing newspapers in Australian publishing history. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Alan was previously The Australian’s Opinion Editor.

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1928-2023Arts

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 24, 2006 US composer Burt Bacharach and singer Dionne Warwick perform during the American Idol Season 5 Finale in Hollywood, California. - Legendary pop composer Bacharach, who produced a string of hit songs over decades, has died in Los Angeles at age 94, US media said on February 9, 2023. His publicist said Bacharach, who worked with stars such as Dionne Warwick and wrote hits including

Rain drops, and tears, are falling for music icon Bacharach

The legendary American composer, songwriter and pianist, has died at the age of 94 in Los Angeles.

Alan Howe

1927-2023Inquirer

AUST. NEWS: Former ambassador and DFAT head Richard Woolcott at his Canberra home. 8/8/04. picture: ray strange

Ultimate diplomat trusted by both sides

Richard Woolcott imparted his wisdom to seven prime ministers and 12 ministers for foreign affairs in an unparalleled career.

Alan Howe and Tom Switzer

OBITUARYInquirer

Sesame Street co-founder Lloyd Morrisett dies aged 93

Learning on the street to teach kids around the world

Lloyd Morrisett thought that if advertisers could win children’s minds using television, then it could be used to equip them for learning.

Alan Howe

ObituaryInquirer

Surrounded by books is British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author, Paul Johnson portrait at home. Paul Bede Johnson (born 2 November 1928) is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

The spectator who wrote about statesmen and women

Paul Johnson was among the world’s most influential historians while being in the driver’s seat of Christian conservative thought.

Alan Howe

ObituaryPolitics

Retired Major General Jim Molan who was a senior officer in the Australian Army at his home in NSW.

Jim Molan: Brave soldier and fearless senator

The shingle on his Senate door read ‘Liberal’, but the office was manned by an independent-minded former soldier whose values were inviolable.

Alan Howe

obituaryInquirer

(FILES) In this file photograph taken on July 16, 1997, US journalist Nate Thayer speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Bangkok, saying he has interviewed Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, who is alive in north-western Cambodia. - Nate Thayer, the larger-than-life US freelance journalist who scored a massive scoop with his 1997 interview with Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, has died at 62, his family said January 4, 2023. Thayer was discovered dead by his brother Rob Thayer at his Falmouth, Massachusetts home on January 3. (Photo by LANCE WOODRUFF / AFP)

Journalist who looked hard into a heart of darkness

Restless, risk-taking Nate Thayer confronted Pol Pot with the unthinkable horror that was the Khmer Rouge in full communist flight.

Alan Howe

InquirerInquirer

Former slave ship captain, John Newton, was ordained in 1764 and appointed a curate in Olney. Source: COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM

Wretched voyages chart song of redemption

Slave trade ship’s captain-turned Anglican cleric John Newton wrote a sermon 250 years ago that, put to music, became Amazing Grace.

Alan Howe

obituaryInquirer

Nasser Abu Hamid was a Palestinian militant. He was a leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

Palestinian terrorist described as ‘killing machine’

No one in Israel, nor Arabs in the Palestinian territories, was safe from Nasser Hamid.

Alan Howe

World

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch and Paul Dano in a scene from the film, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE Supplied by Icon Film Picture: Supplied

Actors face reparations call over slave-owning ancestors

Benedict Cumberbatch and Edward Norton are both involved in claims that each of their families profited from the slave trade.

Alan Howe

ValeLife

COOLUM BEACH, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 29: A portrait of Shane Warne of Australia taken during the Australian cricket team portrait session on August 29, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency at Coolum Beach, Australia. (Photo by Hamish Blair/Getty Images)

Famous farewells of 2022

The passing of Queen Elizabeth II was an emotional landmark for many Australians, but the sudden death of Shane Warne was the year’s greatest jolt.

Alan Howe

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