Ian Brodie OBE
25/05/2008
Ian Brodie, who died in Maryland on May 7th aged 72, was, a Daily Telegraph correspondent in Washington and Los Angeles. He was born in Bath on March 23 1936 and showed an early interest in journalism as a reporter for the Luton News, Daily Sketch and Daily Express. After a time as the latter paper's foreign editor, he became the last editor of the Scottish Daily Express in Glasgow before his return to America with the Daily Telegraph. Beginning as a freelance in Los Angeles in 1975, he spent more than a decade covering the post Vietnam war, the rise of Ronald Reagan and disasters such as the volcanic eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State and the Challenger space shuttle disaster. After becoming its Washington correspondent and putting put down roots in America he declined a return to London and moved to The Times.