My friend Richard Warry, who has died suddenly aged 59, was a BBC journalist who helped to build its online news service from its earliest days, in particular on its coverage of health matters.
An old-school print journalist with a background in the medical press, he was an unlikely character to be such a shaping influence in digital news. But once he joined the BBC’s online news team in 1998, he brought all of his traditional journalistic rigour to a new type of service that was then in its infancy.
