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BBC reporter from the 1950s dies

BBC reporter from the 1950s dies

The death has taken place of Sally Holloway who became the second woman to be employed as a reporter by the BBC. She was 84.

Born Sylvia Gray in 1926, she began work as reporter’s telephonist for the Press Association in London during the war when she was 16.

The job involved her travelling with reporters to stories and then filing their copy.

She soon became a reporter herself and covered the VE Day celebrations for PA.

In 1950 she joined the News Chronicle where she met another young reporter David Holloway who was to become her husband.

Sally Holloway joined the BBC in 1951 to replace Audrey Russell who had been the first woman to work as a reporter for the Corporation.

She was to stay with the BBC until 1954 when she left just before the birth of her first child.

Her journalistic career continued as a freelance contributor to papers such as The Observer and also to the BBC’s Woman’s Hour programme. 

Among her journalistic work in latter years were three books about the London Fire Brigade — her interest in the institution stemmed from the fact that her father was the son of a firefighter.

Sally Holloway is survived by her daughter and two sons.

 

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