PERSON: Martin Fletcher

Correspondent

Martin Fletcher (born 1947) is an English author and retired NBC News’ Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief. He retired from NBC News after 32 years to work on his fourth book (and second novel). He returned to NBC in 2010 as a freelance Special Correspondent. He also reported for PBS Weekend Newshour.

Fletcher was born in London in 1947 to a Jewish family, the son of Georg and Edith, Austrian Jewish refugees to London. He graduated from the University of Bradford in 1970. He worked as a French and German interpreter for the European Economic Community. He began his career as a television news programming writer for Visnews in the U.K. in 1970. He joined the BBC, writing on the main evening television news program, the 9 O’Clock News, until returning to Visnews after teaching himself to be a news cameraman. After four years in Belgium, Israel, and Rhodesia he joined NBC News.

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