The popular image of journalistic life in days gone by may well be
of the heaving newsroom, populated by harassed men with press
passes stuck in the bands of their trilbies, but what of the life
of the roving freelancer, scribing under his own steam? Orphaned
Reg Shay began working life in Fleet Street during the second world
war as a messenger before moving up to the news desk and later
becoming a South London court reporter. He subsequently moved to
Rhodesia for family health reasons where he became a respected and
sought-after international war and political correspondent writing
for, amongst others, the Evening Standard, Time, Life, and the
Mirror; broadcasting regularly on America's ABC News (radio) and
ITN's News at Ten. From death-defying excursions up the
crocodile-infested Zambezi river (he survived a croc attack), to
becoming one country's 'most wanted man' for untrue alleged
espionage activities; he was directly responsible for saving many
children's lives by discovering a Rhodesian concentration camp and
then forcing its immediate closure. He covered four African civil
wars over an nineteen-year period, from the Congo to Mozambique,
Rhodesia and Angola. During the latter, Henry Kissinger relied
solely on Shay's Associated Press reports. This is the story of a
life, filmic in its intensity and excitement and uncompromising in
honesty and principles (he twice resigned in a personal battle
against media censorship), rendered all the more amazing for the
fact that Shay appears to have more lives than a clowder of cats.
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