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Norman Eric Webster CM (June 4, 1941 – November 19, 2021) was a Canadian journalist and an editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and The Gazette. He was one of the three western journalists in the Chinese capital Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in 1969.

Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he was educated at Bishop's College School and received his B.A. from Bishop's University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford. He took part in the 1962 Oxford-Cambridge Tour of Poland and Czechoslovakia and was awarded a Full Blue for ice hockey in 1963 and 1964. He went on to a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, editor and columnist.

In 1995, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

He died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease in Magog, Quebec, on November 19, 2021, at the age of 80.

References

1. "Norman Webster". The Gazette. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
2. Webster, N. (2009, October 02). Norman Webster, Sept. 30, 1969 - July 8, 1971. Retrieved November 03, 2020, from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/norman-webster-sept-30-1969---july-8-1971/article1203350/
3. "Norman E. Webster, C.M., M.A., D.C.L." Order of Canada. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
4. Martin, Patrick (November 19, 2021). "The Globe's Norman Webster, dead at 80, captured history from Mao's China to Mulroney's Meech Lake". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved November 20, 2021.

See also

• List of Bishop's College School alumni

• 1941 births
• 2021 deaths
• Members of the Order of Canada
• People from Summerside, Prince Edward Island
• Writers from Prince Edward Island
• Bishop's College School alumni
• Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
• Canadian columnists
• Canadian newspaper editors
• Canadian male journalists
• The Globe and Mail editors
• Montreal Gazette people
• Alumni of St John's College, Oxford