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Malcolm Dean, creator of the Guardian’s Society pages, dies aged 86

Media | The Guardian · Patrick Butler Social policy editor · last updated

Journalist covered social care, criminal justice and other policy topics in a distinguished career

Malcolm Dean, who created the Guardian’s legendary Society section and wrote widely on topics from social care and poverty to criminal justice and the NHS, has died aged 86 after a long illness.

He spent 37 years at the Guardian as a reporter, columnist, assistant editor and member of the paper’s governing body, the Scott Trust, between 1969 and 2006, before moving into academic research and sitting on working parties and commissions.

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