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About:
Education: Durham University: (BA hons) politics and economics; Master of Arts - thesis on foreign policy; Harkness Fellowship for travel and study in the United States, 1956-57
Career: Started as junior reporter in Ashton under Lyne, age 16; served in the Royal Air Force before going to Durham University; Manchester Evening News: assistant editor; Northern Echo: editor; The Sunday Times: editor, 1967/1981; The Times: editor, 1981/1982; moved to U.S. 1984 - U.S. News & World Report: editorial director; Conde Nast Traveler magazine: founder; Random House trade group: President and Publisher, 1990/1997; U.S. News & World Report, the New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly: Editorial Director and Vice Chairman, 1997/1999 - resigned to concentrate on writing, 2000; The Week (magazine): Editor at Large; U.S. News & World Report: Contributing Editor; The Huffington Post, The Guardian: contributor
Current position/role: journalist and writer
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Viewpoints/Insight:
- Harold Evans: 'All I tried to do was shed a little light', As editor of 'The Sunday Times', Harold Evans battled for the rights of thalidomide victims – and became the stuff of newspaper legend. He took the fight to political cronyism, bloodied Kim Philby's nose and doggedly attacked Margaret Thatcher. His only defeat was to Rupert Murdoch (thanks to below-the-belt tactics). So what inspired the boy from Manchester to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the publishing world? Interview by Robert Chalmers, The Independent, 13th June 2010
- The mystery that consumes Sir Harold Evans - The former Sunday Times editor's memoir, My Paper Chase, tells of the murder of foreign correspondent David Holden - The Times, 6th September 2009
- Interview by James Brady: Sir Harry Never Rests Forbes.com, 6th April 2006
- Profile by Brendan O'Neill: Love letter to America BBC News 24, 29th July 2005
- Harold Evans: What does it take to make a great editor? The Times, 6th December 2002
Broadcast media: Presented BBC Radio 4: A point of view July 2005; U.S. PBS website about the TV Series: They Made America
Video: http://uk.reuters.com/news/video/reuters-tv/sir-harold-evans - Reuters TV
Controversy/Criticism: Resigned editorship of The Times one year after its acquisition by Rupert Murdoch over issues relating to editorial independence
Awards/Honours: International Center of Photography Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999; The International Press Institute - named as one of fifty world press heroes in its celebration of 50 years of work defending the freedom of the press around the world, 2000; Knighted for services to journalism, 2004
Scoops:
When editor of The Sunday Times set the investigative agenda for...
Other: Married to journalist and author Tina Brown
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Books & Debate:
  - Editing and design: a five-volume manual of English, typography and layout (1972-1978) OCLC 341148
- Front Page History: Events of our century that shook the world OCLC 17548009, 1984
- Good Times, Bad Times OCLC 10291845 , 1984
- Pictures on a page: photo-journalism, graphics and picture editing OCLC 37778592, 1997
- The American Century OCLC 34412877 , with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, 1998
- War of Words: memoirs of a South African journalist by Benjamin Pogrund OCLC 38130600, 2000 (introduction by Harold Evans)
- Essential English: For journalists, editors and writers OCLC 43342118, with Crawford Gillan, 2000
- The Best American Magazine Writing 2001 (as editor) OCLC 70792849 , 2001
- Shots in the Dark: true crime pictures OCLC 48951706 ,with Gail Buckland, 2001
- BBC Reports: On America, its allies and enemies, and the counterattack on terrorism OCLC 48675650 , 2002
- War Stories: Reporting in the time of conflict from the Crimea to Iraq OCLC 53151073 , 2003
- They Made America OCLC 53814009 (Two centuries of innovators from the steam engine to the search engine), with Gail Buckland and David Lefer, 2004
- We the People ISBN 0-316-27717-7 (US history, 19th century), 2005
Latest work: My paper chase: true stories of vanished times OCLC 318879231, 2009
Speaking/Appearances:
Current debate:Science debate 2008: A Call for a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology
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Articles:
- Rupert Murdoch: myth, memory and imagination - The version of history told by Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry bears no relation to what happened - 26th April 2012
- How far can the press go in the public interest? - With Kai Diekmann, Heather Brooke, and Guido Fawkes. My simple test is: will this scoop advance human wellbeing? - 27th September 2011
- Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator - In a new preface to his book, Good Times, Bad Times, the former Sunday Times editor connects the phone-hacking crisis to earlier events at News International - 18th September 2011
- A free press has always had to contend with police officers waving the Official Secrets Act - In his long career on Fleet Street, the former Sunday Times editor often tangled with the courts when stories became troublesome for those in power - 17th September 2011
- Intelligent, traditional media are crucial to the defence of our liberty - Revelations about the 'News of the World' had not been exposed when Cebrián was writing about how some journalists had become spies, informers and smear artists - 26th February 2011
- A Gulf that unites Britain and America - As a Brit-born American, I see how the two spills – Robert Green's and BP's – are part of one close relationship - 15th June 2010
- Lessons of a Mass revolt - Though many oppose health reform, Barack Obama's rejection in Massachusetts is mainly because millions are still out of work - 21st January 2010
- Changing the world without shouting - Ludovic Kennedy took on the toughest causes with grace, wit and persistence - 22nd October 2009 (writing in The Times)
- A moral atrocity - Judge Goldstone has been suckered into letting war criminals use his name to pillory Israel - 20th October 2009
- The curious pursuit of the honourable Peter Hain - After he was framed as a bank robber, I helped clear his name. Now he's been singled out for another non-crime - 9th December 2008
- Mad about The One - The US media have been captivated by Obama, at the expense of their curiosity and scepticism - 1st November 2008
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