Bob Edwards (British journalist)
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]
References
- ISBN 0-671-02412-4. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Revel Barker "Bob Edwards: Journalist who edited the 'Daily Express', 'The People' and the 'Sunday Mirror'", The Independent,
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 October 2019.