A brief
chronology of Dick's journalistic career is below
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Pre Second World War:
Junior reporter with the Evening Argus in Sussex
Post Second World War:
Joint editor of the Oxford University Student Magazine, The Isis.
Up to 1955:
Worked for the Daily
Mail as a sub-editor
1955 - 1967:
Various posts including
editor of the African Mail and the Times of Zambia
1968 -1986:
Observer colour magazine editor
Observer Foreign and Commonwealth editor
Financial Times Diary writer
1986 - 1997:
Founder and editor of Africa Analysis, current affairs newsletter.
Read an article about the take-over of the Observer newspaper by Tiny
Rowlands as a PDF