Veteran British journalist Bill Deedes - the inspiration for the naive young reporter in the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop - has died at the age of 94. Deedes was still writing for the Daily Telegraph ...

The Daily Telegraph that Bill Deedes edited from 1974 to 1986–the year in which Conrad Black bought the newspaper and ousted him–was an institution that would be unimaginable today, and one that must ...

British journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the central character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop, had died at the age of 94. Deedes, who was still writing for the Daily Telegraph until recently ...

London: Lord Deedes, regarded by many as a national institution, and the longest serving Daily Telegraph journalist, has died aged 94. Deedes - who was a witness to many of the 20th century's most ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the naive young reporter in the novel "Scoop", has died aged 94, ending a 76-year career during which he was a cabinet minister ...

Veteran British journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the naive young reporter, William Boot, in Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel Scoop, has died aged 94, ending a 76-year career during which he ...

Lord Deedes Lord Deedes, who has died aged 94, was a Cabinet minister from 1962 to 1964, and editor of the The Daily Telegraph from 1974 to 1986; by far his greatest achievement, however, was the ...

The Etonian's motto, it used to be said, was that "a gentleman should not be seen to try". Bill Deedes was a Harrovian, but he has made his life a masquerade, in which gems of journalism are made to ...

Bill Deedes, a mild-mannered, uncommonly decent and occasionally befuddled newspaperman who, despite all those qualities, became the dean of British journalists, died Aug. 17 at his home in Aldington, ...