Sir Harold Evans: 1928–2020.

Reuters

Sir Harold Evans: 1928–2020. He exposed deadly corporate secrets and the spy scandal of the century - setting the world's gold standard for journalism in the public interest https://reut.rs/3iY9lWr




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Obituary: Sir Harold Evans

-https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13439676

...Evans's reputation was confirmed when he was voted the all-time greatest newspaper editor by his peers in 2002 and was knighted in 2004 for his services to journalism.

He was passionate about newspaper journalism to the end, saying in his 2009 memoirs My Paper Chase: "It's endlessly fascinating to me how the tumult of the world can be made comprehensible by the orderly calibration of values within the discipline of the printed page."

In 2011, at the age of 82, he was appointed editor at large at the Reuters news agency, the organisation's editor-in-chief describing him as "one of the greatest minds in journalism".

The former Sunday Times Insight editor, Bruce Page, once described Evans as "the most considerable editor of post-war history: courageous, determined, with extraordinary presentational flair, and a great technician who understood the craft of newspapers".