George Ffitch

George Norman Ffitch (23 January 1929 – 5 July 2001) was an English newsreader, television presenter, radio personality and journalist. He began working for ITN as an industrial and political correspondent and later a programme editor when it was founded in 1955, covering elections and results broadcasts, political conventions in the United States and party conferences in the United Kingdom. Ffitch presented television programs such as This Week and News at Ten. He also worked as the political and assistant editor at The Economist and also at the Daily Express. He was managing director of LBC and Independent Radio News from 1979 to his retirement in 1985.

Biography

Early life Ffitch was born at 29 Charlotte Street in West Ham in Essex (now part of the London Borough of Newham) on 23 January 1929. He was chosen to do the Army's Russian course at Bodmin during the early 1950s;

Career He wrote for the Tokio Evening News newspaper, the 1958 Rochdale by-election, and the weekly feature programme Roving Report in 1959 on ITV.

From July 1967, Ffitch was later employed by Geoffrey Cox to be the managing director of LBC and Independent Radio News. Ffitch retired that same year; He died at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust in Chelsea, London on 5 July 2001.