Background
He was born in Birkenhead, Wirral c. 1947, the son of John and Norah McCarthy.
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Michael McCarthy
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He studied Modern Languages at the University of Liverpool.
Career
He worked as a journalist first on the Bolton Evening News and then on the Daily Mirror. After 17 years in local and tabloid journalism, he moved first to The Times, then to The Independent on Sunday, and then to The Independent. He worked 27 years for those broadsheet newspapers.
He was Environment Editor of The Independent until 2013, and as of July 2015 is its Environment Columnist.
He was the driving force behind a campaign by The Independent to identify the reasons for the decline of the British urban House sparrow. But the £5,000 prize offered by that newspaper has as of July 2015 not been awarded.
Achievements
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1991 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2001 – Specialist Writer of the Year, British Press 2003 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2006 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2007 – Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for outstanding services to conservation 2010 – Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London 2011 – Dilys Breese Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
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Nationality
British
Awards
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1991 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2001 – Specialist Writer of the Year, British Press 2003 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2006 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2007 – Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for outstanding services to conservation 2010 – Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London 2011 – Dilys Breese Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)1991 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2001 – Specialist Writer of the Year, British Press 2003 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2006 – Environment Journalist of the Year, The British Environment and Media 2007 – Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for outstanding services to conservation 2010 – Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London 2011 – Dilys Breese Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)