Bob Edwards (British journalist)

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Robert John Edwards

CBE
(26 October 1925 – 28 May 2012) was a British journalist.

Edwards was editor 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.[2]

Edwards was appointed a CBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours.[3] He died on 28 May 2012, at the age of 86.[4]

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Media offices
Preceded by Editor of Tribune
1952–1955
Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Editor of the
Sunday Express

1957–1959
Succeeded by
?
Preceded by Acting Editor of the Daily Express
1961
Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of the Daily Express
1963–1965
Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of the
Sunday People

1966–1972
Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of the Sunday Mirror
1972–1984
Succeeded by
Peter Thompson