'A total newshound': Steven Edwards, National Post reporter who ran toward the towers on 9/11, dead at 67

British-born Edwards was an original National Post journalist who was the paper’s UN correspondent for many years, covering a wide range of world events

Steven Edwards, who has died aged 67, was a newspaper correspondent whose youthful experience of the 1974 Birmingham IRA bombings inspired a close reckoning with the extremes of human politics, including major coverage of the Rwandan genocide and the detention of Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay.

Trained in England, he was an original National Post journalist on a staff that drew heavily from British newspaper talent, a tabloid man gone broadsheet.