Philip Samuel Jacobson ( 10 September 1938 – 1 January 2018 ) was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his reporting for '' The Sunday Times '' Insight team of the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972 . Philip Jacobson was born on 10 September 1938 to Sydney , later Baron , Jacobson , and his wife . His father was political editor of the '' Daily Mirror '' and later editor of the '' Daily Herald '' and '' The Sun '' . Jacobson was brought up in Stanmore , Middlesex , and educated in Dorset and at schools elsewhere . He did his national service in a tank regiment that was stationed in Malaya during the emergency . Afterwards he took a degree in politics at the London School of Economics
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Philip Jacobson