Broadcaster Edward Stourton, Voice of BBC Radio 4's 'Today,' Dies at 68
Journalist anchored the flagship morning program for a decade and helped launch Channel 4 News
Broadcaster and journalist Edward Stourton has died at age 68, the BBC reported.
Stourton spent a decade as one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme, Britain's premier morning news broadcast, a fixture of political and public life relied on by listeners for agenda-setting interviews and analysis.
Before his long run at the BBC, Stourton was a founding member of Channel 4 News, helping establish the broadcaster's reputation for in-depth reporting when it launched.
Tributes to Stourton's decades of work in British broadcast journalism were expected to follow as colleagues and listeners reflected on a career that spanned some of the medium's most prominent institutions.
— Compiled from reporting by the BBC.