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Lionel Morrison

1935–2016

United Kingdom

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Lionel Edmund Morrison OBE OIS (13 October 1935 – 31 October 2016) was a South African-born British journalist, and a former president of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). He was the first black journalist to hold that office.

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