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Christopher Ward (journalist)
Christopher Ward is a British author, journalist, editor, and publisher. He is also the grandson and biographer of Jock Hume, a violinist who died in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' and one of the members of the band which continued playing while the ship sank. Career Ward began his career as a journalist in 1959 working at local newspapers, the '' Driffield Times'' and the ''Newcastle Evening Chronicle''. He then moved to national daily, the ''Daily Mirror'', in 1963 where he worked as a reporter, columnist and sub-editor before becoming assistant editor at the ''Mirror'' and its sister paper the '' Sunday Mirror'' in 1976. After five years in this position, Ward left the ''Mirror'' in 1981 to become editor at the '' Daily Express'', a national daily newspaper, at age 38. He remained at the ''Express'' for two years, before leaving in 1983 to jointly found Redwood magazine publishers with Christopher Curry and Michael Potter. Between 2002 and 2008, Ward was UK chairman of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Boxer
Charles Mark Edward Boxer (19 May 1931 – 20 July 1988) was a British magazine editor and social observer, and a political cartoonist and graphic portrait artist working under the pen-name ‘Marc’. Education Boxer was educated at Berkhamsted School, an independent school for boys in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire. He then attended King's College, Cambridge, where in 1952 he became editor of the student magazine ''Granta''. During this period, the magazine published a poem deemed by the University authorities to be blasphemous. The Vice-Chancellor demanded Boxer be sent down, the first student since Percy Bysshe Shelley to receive such a sentence for this offence (although Shelley studied at Oxford). E.M. Forster spoke in his defence. His college succeeded in reducing the sentence to a week's rustication during May Week, which would mean that he missed the May Ball. The authorities forgot, however, that May Balls go on into the early hours and, on the stroke of midnight duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |