Sir Harold Evans | |
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 Evans in 2009 | |
| Born | Harold Matthew Evans 28 June 1928 Eccles, England |
| Died | 23 September 2020 (aged 92) New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | British and American |
| Alma mater | University College, Durham |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | The Sunday Times The Week The Guardian BBC Radio 4 |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 5 |
Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title The Times for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by Rupert Murdoch.[3] While at The Sunday Times, he led the newspaper's campaign to seek compensation for mothers who had taken the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs.
In 1984, he and his wife Tina Brown moved to the United States where he became an American citizen, retaining dual nationality. He held positions in journalism with U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Daily News. In 1986, he founded Condé Nast Traveller.[4] He wrote books on history and journalism, such as The American Century (1998).[5] In 2000, he retired from positions in journalism to spend more time on his writing. From 2001, he served as editor-at-large of The Week magazine and, from 2005, he was a contributor to The Guardian and BBC Radio 4. Evans was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 2004, for services to journalism. On 13 June 2011, Evans was appointed editor-at-large of the Reuters news agency.[6] From 2013 until 2019, he served as chairman of the European Press Prize jury panel.
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- ^ Robert Chalmers (12 June 2010), "Harold Evans: 'All I tried to do was shed a little light'", The Independent.
- ^ McFadden, Robert D. (24 September 2020). "Harold Evans, Crusading Newspaperman With a Second Act, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ "Remembering Sir Harold Evans, Founding Editor of Condé Nast Traveler". 25 September 2020.
- ^ A Word on Words; 2719; Harold Evans, December 1998, retrieved 24 September 2020
- ^ "Sir Harold Evans Appointed Reuters Editor-at-Large". Reuters. 13 June 2011. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2015.