Leah Nora Beloff (January 24, 1919 - February 12, 1997) is a British political journalist and author. He worked for The Observer for three decades, from 1948 to 1978, and became a political correspondent in 1964, making him the first woman in such a role for a British newspaper.
Early life
Beloff was born in Kensington, London to Simon Beloff and Marie Katzin. His parents are a Jewish-Russian background, and his brothers include historians Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, psychologist John Beloff, biochemist Anne Beloff-Chain and principal Renee Soskin. He studied at King Alfred School and read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1940.
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Careers
After graduating from Oxford, Beloff worked for the British Foreign Office in 1941, joining his political intelligence department. He moved to Paris in 1944 to work at the British embassy, ​​and lived in Paris after World War II working for Reuters. He worked for The Economist (1946-1948) and later The Observer as a Paris-based correspondent. He left Paris to cover the Cold War for The Observer from Washington, D.C. (1949-51), and Moscow. His work first attracted significant attention during the Algerian War, when he reported on the torture of two female rebels, Djamila Bouhired and Djamila Boupacha, by the French army.
In 1964, he returned to London after his appointment as a political correspondent for The Observer; this made her the first female political correspondent of a British newspaper. In this role, he often writes important pieces of Labor, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson consequently petitioned The Observer to dismiss him. He remained at this post until 1976, and then worked as a special correspondent. Beloff left The Observer in 1978 after 30 years of disagreement with his new editor, Donald Trelford.
Beloff wrote five books during his career: The General Said No (1963), Transit of Britain (1973), Freedom under Foot (1976) Not Travel Like Russian Travel (1979) and Tito's Flawed Legacy (1985). He traveled extensively throughout Europe in his last career and, while reporting on the persecution of Soviet Jews, was arrested in Georgia and expelled from Yugoslavia.
She is long lampooned in a satirical magazine Personal Eyes under the nickname "Nora Ballsoff". He fought against two legal actions against the magazine; he won defamation of  £ 3,000 but lost a breach of copyright action.
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Personal life and death
Beloff married Clifford Makins, a sports editor for The Observer from 1977 until his death in 1990. He died of pulmonary embolism from Hodgkin's lymphoma at Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1997. After his death , Beloff's former editor, Donald Trelford, writes that he "owns one of the most prominent women's careers in British journalism".
References
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