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British journalist
A.K.A.
Robert John Edwards
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Male
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Birth:
26 October 1925
Death:
28 May 2012
The details
Biography
Robert John Edwards CBE (26 October 1925 – 28 May 2012) was a British journalist.
Edwards was editor of Tribune (1951–54), a feature writer on the Evening Standard (1954–57), deputy editor of the Sunday Express (1957–59), managing editor of the Daily Express (1959–61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen (1962–63), editor of the Daily Express again (1963–65), editor of the Sunday People (1966–72) and editor of the Sunday Mirror (1972–84). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988.
Edwards published an autobiography in 1988, Goodbye Fleet Street.
He was awarded a CBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours.