The friends at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2019, where Clive (right) chaired a panel discussion featuring George
Throughout his 40-year career, he was loved, admired and respected in equal measure by all who knew him. Last week, the BBC News at Six presenter George Alagiah died surrounded by his family at the age of 67, having been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2014. He was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) into a Tamil family, who moved to Ghana in 1961. He went on to become a leading foreign correspondent, reporting on hardhitting events including famine, genocide and civil war, and was awarded an OBE for services to journalism in 2008. Here, his friend and colleague, BBC newsreader Clive Myrie, pays a touching tribute to the father of two, a “humble, kind, generous” man he looked up to, and tells how journalism has “lost a giant”.