Fred Emery (journalist)

Frederick Emery (19 October 1933 – 15 August 2025) was a British television presenter and investigative journalist.[1]

Background

Fred Emery was born in south-west Essex on 19 October 1933. He attended Bancroft's School in north-east London from 1944 to 1951.[2] He was head boy in 1951. He studied French and German at St John's College, Cambridge, before spending a year at Radio Bremen and then joining The Times as a new recruit in 1958.[3][4]

Emery died on 15 August 2025, at the age of 91.[1]

Career

Newspapers

Emery had a distinguished career as a newspaper journalist. He served as a foreign correspondent covering the Vietnam War. During the 1970s he was Washington Bureau Chief for The Times throughout the Watergate scandal. He would publish in 1994 a detailed history of the scandal in Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, based on extensive interviews with key participants; according to The New York Times it "stands on its own as a comprehensive account of this century's most notorious political scandal."[5] He also narrated an accompanying 5-part BBC documentary series.[6] His archive from this research is held by Senate House Library, London.[7]

Panorama

After leaving The Times, Emery was a presenter for the investigative current affairs programme Panorama, working on various episodes from 1978 to 1992.[8] He interviewed Margaret Thatcher[9] on 8 June 1983, on the eve of the 1983 general election. Among the episodes he presented was the controversial 1984 programme 'Maggie's Militant Tendency'. This episode would be the subject of a 1986 libel case brought by the Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Gerald Howarth which the BBC would eventually settle.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Fred Emery, journalist who clashed with the Thatcher government as a combative presenter of Panorama". The Daily Telegraph. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  2. ↑ School 2012
  3. ↑ "EMERY, Fred". Who's Who. Vol. 2025 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ "Cambridge Tripos Results". The Times. 22 June 1955. p. 4.
  5. ↑ "Nixon's America".
  6. ↑ "BBC Two - Watergate, Series 1, Scapegoat".
  7. ↑ "Watergate / Fred Emery papers - Archives Hub".
  8. ↑ BBC Archive
  9. ↑ 1983 interview transcript
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