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hen my brother Daniel was asked to help make the minyan at Brighton’s Meadow View Jewish Cemetery recently, he knew nothing of the person being buried, other than that he was the brother of a local synagogue member. She had requested he be buried close by.
At the ground, among the small throng of mourners, Daniel spotted a tallish, gaunt figure, with a thin grey beard and flat hat who vaguely looked familiar. It was same person who, in 2014, had been photographed in Tunisia laying a wreath at the graveside of a terrorist involved in the brutal murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. This time around, the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was paying his respects to the left-wing campaigning journalist Eric Gordon.
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Tributes to journalist who championed an independent press
09 April, 2021
CNJ, Islington Tribune and Westminster Extra editor, Eric Gordon, who died on Monday at the age of 89
ERIC Gordon – the founding editor of
Camden New Journal,
Westminster Extra – passed away on Monday after a short illness.
The 89-year old, who had been our newspapers’ only editor since the company was first formed in 1982, may have made him the United Kingdom’s oldest editor still regularly at work.
And still he rarely booked a holiday.
As editor of one of the last independent titles in the country, he was proud of the newspapers’ freedom from large groups and championed a co-operative-style structure, warning that papers would struggle to survive if they had to answer to faraway group executives or distant shareholders seeking dividends each year.