Bob Satchwell, award-winning local newspaper editor turned doughty defender of press freedom – obituary
Bob Satchwell, award-winning local newspaper editor turned doughty defender of press freedom – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © PA Bob Satchwell as editor of the Cambridge Evening News in 1997 - PA Bob Satchwell, who has died aged 73 after developing pneumonia and Covid-19, was founding executive director of the Society of Editors (SoE), which has more than 450 members in all media sectors, and a doughty campaigner against attempts by the powerful to place statutory limits on press freedom. Satchwell’s career took him from the Lancashire Evening Post, where he was voted ...