Doughty reporter who narrowly escaped death while covering the Kosovo war for The Times
Jump to full article: Times Of London (uk), 2007-09-28
Intro: Her death robs British journalism of a doughty, principled and brave reporter, whose own long fight against cancer always came second to her insistence on pursuing a story to the end. . . .
In one of her last dispatches, in March last year, she wrote an account of her six-hour meeting with him in his prison cell. She had smuggled in two croissants, and Milosevic, courteous but pale and clearly in poor health, offered her in return one of his Davidoff cigarettes. . . .
her fairness, balance and refusal to be a propaganda outlet won her widespread respect: her disappearance after the Nato attack was front-page news.
Eve-Ann Page was born in 1952 . . .
impressing her colleagues with her passion for the plight of farm labourers in tied cottages, her dedication to smoking and her ability to drink a pint of Elgood's bitter in four and a half seconds. . . .
She died of cancer on September 20, 2007, aged 55
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