Editing Robert Fisk (section)

===Newspaper correspondent ===
Fisk worked on the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' diary column before a disagreement with the editor, [[John Junor]], prompted a move to ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fisk|first=Robert|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-my-days-in-fleet-streets-lubyanka-877812.html|title=My days in Fleet Street's Lubyanka|date=26 July 2008|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=26 July 2008|location=London}}</ref> From 1972 to 1975, at the height of [[the Troubles]], Fisk was  ''The Times''{{'}} [[Belfast]] correspondent,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Murphy|first1=Greg|last2=Clarke|first2=Vivienne|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40074401.html |title=Veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74|work=Irish Examiner|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> before being posted to Portugal following the [[Carnation Revolution]] in 1974.<ref>{{cite journal&nbsp;|last=Head|first=Linda S.|url=https://www.alshindagah.com/Shindagah75/the_worlds_best_known_war_correspondent.htm |title=The World's Best-Known War Correspondent|work=Al Shindagah|date=April–May 2007|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> He then was appointed Middle East correspondent (1976–1987).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/55863/robert-fisk/ |title=Robert Fisk|publisher=Penguin Random House|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> In addition to the Troubles and Portugal, he reported the [[History of Iran|Iranian revolution]] in 1979.<ref name="IT20201101" /> When a story of his on [[Iran Air Flight 655]] was [[Spike (journalism)|spiked]] shortly after the paper's takeover by [[Rupert Murdoch]], Fisk moved to ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://german-documentaries.de/en_EN/films/this-is-not-a-movie.13301 |title=This Is Not a Movie|website=German Documentaries|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> in 1989.<ref name="IT20201101" /> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Fisk as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain".<ref name="nyt_eb">{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/books/review/19bron.html?ei=5070&en=55044ab9f817eb99&ex=1153454400&pagewanted=print |title= A Foreign Correspondent Who Does More Than Report |date=19 November 2005 |access-date=19 July 2006 |work=The New York Times |author=Bronner, Ethan}}</ref> ''[[The Economist]]'' referred to him as "one of the most influential correspondents in the Middle East since the second world war."<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 November 2020|title=Robert Fisk, a voice on the Middle East, died on October 30th|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/11/05/robert-fisk-a-voice-on-the-middle-east-died-on-october-30th|access-date=15 November 2020|issn=0013-0613}}</ref>