Robert John Edwards (26 October 1925 – 28 May 2012) was a British journalist.
Edwards was editor of ''
Tribune
Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on th ...
'' (1951–54), a feature writer on the ''
Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format.
In October 2009, after be ...
'' (1954–57), deputy editor of the ''
Sunday Express'' (1957–59), managing editor of the ''
Daily Express'' (1959–1961) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow ''
Evening Citizen
The ''Evening Citizen'', was an evening version of '' The Glasgow Citizen'' (a daily newspaper founded in 1842 by James David Hedderwick). It was first published in August 1864, was one of the first of three evening newspapers to be printed, pub ...
'' (1962–63), editor of the ''
Daily Express'' again (1963–65), editor of the ''
Sunday People'' (1966–1972) and editor of the ''
Sunday Mirror'' (1972–1984). He was a director of
Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988.
He published an autobiography in 1988, ''Goodbye Fleet Street''. He was interviewed by
National Life Stories (C467/10) in 2007 for the 'Oral History of the British Press' collection held by the British Library.
[National Life Stories, 'Edwards, Bob (1 of 4) National Life Stories Collection: 'Oral History of the British Press', The British Library Board, 2007]
Retrieved 7 October 2017.
Edwards was appointed a CBE in the
1986 Birthday Honours. He died on 28 May 2012, at the age of 86.
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1925 births
2012 deaths
British male journalists
British magazine editors
British newspaper editors
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Daily Express people
The Sunday People people
People educated at Ranelagh Grammar School
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