Hella Pick, pioneering Guardian journalist, dies aged 96

Hella Pick, pictured in 2017, ‘was a giant of 20th century British journalism but in a class of her own’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Hella Pick, the Guardian’s esteemed and pioneering former foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor, has died at the age of 96.

Her career spanned more than seven decades, during which she covered geopolitical upheavals and tectonic shifts in global power, and met numerous world leaders. Her last article, on the war in Gaza, was published in January.