biography
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at the universities of Durham and Chicago. He was an assistant editor on the Manchester Evening News and editor of the Northern Echo, before becoming editor of The Sunday Times (1967–83). He was a pioneer of investigative journalism, successfully appealing to the European Court of Human Rights against the suppression by the House of Lords of articles exposing the thalidomide scandal. |
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