On 4 September 1909, Daily Chronicle journalist Philip Gibbs checked himself into an out-of-the-way hotel in Copenhagen to write what would be the most important article of his career so far. He was one of many journalists from all over Europe who were in Copenhagen to cover the arrival of the American explorer Frederick Cook, who three days earlier had announced he had become the first person to reach the North Pole.

Origen: What reporters can learn from a Fleet Street legend who challenged a famous explorer’s North Pole claim – Press Gazette

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