Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries, known as J. M. N. Jeffries (1880–1960), was a British

war correspondent A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war, war zone. War correspondence stands as one of journalism's most important and impactful forms. War correspondents operate in the most conflict-ridden parts of the wor ...

, historian and author. Between 1914 and 1933 he wrote for the ''

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'', serving as a war correspondent as head of the Paris bureau during

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. He is reported to have set a record by reporting World War I from at least 17 countries by 1918, including Egypt, Albania, Greece, Italy, Austria, Belgium and France. In 1922, he travelled with the owner of the ''Daily Mail'',

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, to

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Bibliography

* * * * Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries, London and Better (1936), Hutchinson & Co, London

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffries, Joseph Mary Nagle British reporters and correspondents British war correspondents Writers on the Middle East British newspaper journalists 1880 births 1960 deaths