David Chipp (1927-2008)

[Michael Rhodes]

David Chipp, journalist, was born on June 6, 1927. He was found dead
at his home on September 8, 2008, aged 81.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4726173.ece

Irrepressible, gregarious, generous and — even into his ninth decade —
full of energy, David Chipp was a rare news agency journalist who was
the spiritual opposite of the received image of a quiet, unassuming
and unbylined reporter hidden in the crowd. The official history of
the Press Association bore the title Reporter Anonymous, but there was
nothing anonymous about Chipp.

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[Michael Rhodes]

David Chipp, who has died aged 81, was the first Western correspondent
to report from China after the Commmunist takeover of 1949 and later
an inspiring editor-in-chief of the Press Association, Britain's
national news agency, for 17 years. PA had slid into a depressed state
under the stewardship of an accountant when Chipp struck a fresh note
by telling his first editorial conference in 1969 that journalism
should be fun, then adding: "If we do not find it so, we might as well
be bank clerks.. He made news stories shorter and brighter, gave
reporters bylines and encouraged them to slip out from under the
umbrella of the political establishment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2800159/David-Chipp.html

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[Michael Rhodes]

David Chipp, the former editor-in-chief of the Press Association, who
has died aged 81, was one of those rare journalists who combined a
talent for reporting with leadership skills, unruffled organisational
abilities and an aptitude for diplomacy. Added to these was a highly
developed sense of humour and a memory for detail that made him a
wonderful lunch companion at the Garrick in recent years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/12/pressandpublishing

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