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Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 192823 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of ''
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'' from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title ''
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'' for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by
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. While at ''The Sunday Times'', he led the newspaper's campaign to seek compensation for mothers who had taken the
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drug
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, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs. In 1984, he and his wife
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moved to the United States where he became an American citizen, retaining dual nationality. He held positions in journalism with '' U.S. News & World Report'', ''
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'', and the New York ''Daily News''. In 1986, he founded ''
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''. He wrote books on history and journalism, such as ''The American Century'' (1998). In 2000, he retired from positions in journalism to spend more time on his writing. From 2001, he served as editor-at-large of ''
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'' magazine and, from 2005, he was a contributor to ''
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'' and BBC Radio 4. Evans was invested as a
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in 2004, for services to journalism. On 13 June 2011, Evans was appointed editor-at-large of the
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news agency. From 2013 until 2019, he served as chairman of the
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jury panel.


Early life and education

Evans, the eldest of four sons, was born at 39 Renshaw Street,
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, Eccles, to
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parents, Frederick and Mary Evans (''née'' Haselum), whom he described in his 2009 memoir as "the self-consciously respectable working class".Nicholas Lemann, "The Power and the Glory"
''The New Yorker'', 7 December 2009, accessed 3 January 2013
His father was an engine driver, while his mother ran a shop in their front room to enable the family to buy a car. He failed the
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, needed to gain entry to
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, and attended St Mary's Central School in
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and a business school for a year to learn
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, a requirement to become a journalist.


Career


Early career

Evans began his career as a reporter for a weekly newspaper in
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, Lancashire, at 16. During his
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in the
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(1946–1949), he passed an intelligence test to become an officer, but did not hear anything further and served as a clerk. He entered
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,
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, after contacting every one of the fourteen universities in Great Britain at the time. While a student, he edited the university's independent newspaper, '' Palatinate''. After studying economics and politics, he graduated in 1952. Following his appointment as a sub-editor on the ''
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'', he was chosen by the International Press Institute to teach newspaper technique in India. Evans won a
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in 1956–1957 to travel and study in the United States, spending periods at the universities of
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and
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. After his return, to the UK, he became an assistant editor on the ''Manchester Evening News''.
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observed that he "joined a long line of British journalists" who did similar studies, from
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to
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. Evans was appointed editor of a regional daily, ''
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'', in 1961. While at the Darlington title, Evans successfully campaigned for cervical smear tests to be remedied so that he could be more available for journalistic work, and he campaigned tirelessly to pardon
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, wrongly convicted and hanged for murders in
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,
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. ''The Northern Echo'' was able to demonstrate that there had been a miscarriage of justice. In 1966, Harold Evans moved to London to become assistant to the editor of ''The Sunday Times''. The owners of the newspaper, the
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, acquired ''
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'' not long afterwards, and Evans' editor,
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was promoted to editor-in-chief of the Times group. He recommended Evans to the board as the next editor of ''The Sunday Times''.


''The Sunday Times'' and ''The Times''


Reporting

Evans became editor of ''The Sunday Times'' in 1967. Early on during his period as editor came the title's exposure of
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in that year as a member of the
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who had been involved in espionage on behalf of Russia from 1933. Previously it had been claimed that Philby was a low-level diplomat at the time he fled to Moscow in 1963, whereas in actuality, he had been in charge of anti-Soviet intelligence and the chief officer responsible for maintaining contacts with the
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. Evans was warned the revelations risked national security, receiving a
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requesting he should not publish at the beginning of September. Despite this, he went ahead with publication believing the D-notice had been issued to inoculate the government against bad publicity, rather than to maintain the country's security. The official complaint was later withdrawn. A long-running issue during his tenure was
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, a drug prescribed to expectant mothers suffering from
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, which led to thousands of children in Britain having deformed limbs. They had not received compensation from the drug manufacturers, who in the United Kingdom were the
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. He organised a campaign by the newspaper's ''Insight'' investigative team, appointing
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to run the investigation. Evans took on the drug companies responsible for the manufacture of thalidomide, pursuing them through the English courts and eventually gaining victory in the
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in 1979. The British government was compelled to change the law on
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which had inhibited the reporting of civil cases. While it was legal for the newspaper to campaign, it was not possible for the journalists to report its factual basis. After the ruling in the European Court, the British media was now able to report such cases without restraint. The families of thalidomide victims eventually won compensation of £32.5 million as a consequence of Evans' ''Sunday Times'' campaign. A documentary about Evans and the thalidomide campaign, ''Attacking The Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime'', appeared in 2016. The British government attempted in 1974 to prevent Evans from publishing extracts from the diaries of former Labour cabinet minister
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, shortly after Crossman had died and ahead of the diaries publication in book form. Evans risked prosecution under the
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for breaking the
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preventing disclosures of government business. Lord Chief Justice Widgery ruled that publication would not be against the public interest.


Murdoch takeover

When
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acquired
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in 1981, he appointed Evans as editor of ''
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''. He remained with the paper only a year, during which time ''The Times'' was critical of
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. Over 50 journalists resigned in the first six months of Murdoch's takeover, a number of them known to dislike Evans. In March 1982, a group of ''Times'' journalists called for Evans to resign, despite the paper's increase in circulation, claiming that he had overseen an "erosion of editorial standards". Evans resigned shortly afterwards, citing policy differences with Murdoch relating to
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. Evans included an account of the episode in his book ''Good Times, Bad Times'' (1984). In the introduction to the 1994 edition, Evans wrote of Murdoch: "When I come across him socially in New York I find I am without any residual emotional hostility ... I have to remind myself ... that
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is the most arresting character in Milton's ''
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''." On leaving ''The Times'', Evans became director of
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and Television.


Move to the United States

In 1984, Evans moved to the United States, where he taught at
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in North Carolina and
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. He was appointed editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly Press and became editorial director of '' U.S. News & World Report'' and worked for the ''
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''. In 1986, he was the founding editor of ''
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'' where, unlike other publications, the staff were barred from receiving any free travel or hospitality from the organisations they wrote about. Evans was appointed president and publisher of
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from 1990 to 1997. He acquired rights for $40,000 to the memoir, ''
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'', by
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, then at the start of his political career. Evans was editorial director and vice-chairman of '' U.S. News & World Report'', and ''
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'' from 1997 to January 2000, when he resigned. His work '' The American Century'' was published in 1998. The sequel, ''They Made America'' (2004), described the lives of some of the country's most important inventors and innovators. ''
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'' characterised it as one of the best books in the 75 years of that magazine's publication. The book was adapted as a four-part television
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that same year and as a
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special in the US in 2005. Evans became a naturalised United States citizen in 1993. On 13 June 2011, he became
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at
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.


Personal life and death

In 1953, Evans married fellow Durham graduate Enid Parker, with whom he had a son and two daughters; the marriage was dissolved in 1978. The couple remained on good terms; Enid Evans died in 2013. In 1973, Evans met
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, a journalist 25 years his junior. In 1974, she was given freelance assignments with ''
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'' in the UK, and in the U.S. by its ''Colour magazine''. When a sexual affair emerged between the married Evans and Brown, she resigned and joined the rival ''
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''. On 20 August 1981, Evans and Brown married at
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, in East Hampton, New York, the home of
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, then ''
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'' executive editor, and
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. Evans and Brown had a son and daughter. Evans died in New York City on 23 September 2020 at the age of 92. The cause of death given was
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.


Honours

*1980: Received the Hood Medal of the
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for photography in public service *2000: Named one of
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of the past fifty yearsMichael Kudlak
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, ''IPI Report'', June 2000
*
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: Appointed
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by Queen
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for services to journalism *2015: Recipient of Kraszna-Krausz Foundation's Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Award


Bibliography

*''Editing and Design: A Five-Volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout'' (1972) *''Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers'' (1972) *''Newsman's English'' (1972) *''Newspaper Design'' (1973) *''Editing and Design'' (1974) *''Handling Newspaper Text'' (1974) *''News Headlines'' (1974) *''Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years 1957-1963'' (1981) *''Front Page History: Events of Our Century That Shook the World'' (1984) *''Good Times, Bad Times'' (1983) London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson *''Editing and Design: Book 2: Handling Newspaper Text'' (1986) *''Assignments: The Press Photographers' Association Yearbook (Assignments)'' (1988) by Harold Evans (commentary), Anna Tait (editor) *''Makers of Photographic History'' (1990) *''Eyewitness 2: 3 Decades Through World Press Photos'' (1992) *''Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing'' (1997) *''The American Century'' (1998) *''War of Words: Memoirs of a South African Journalist'' (2000) by Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans *''Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures'' (2001) by Gail Buckland, Harold Evans *''The Best American Magazine Writing 2001'' (2001) Harold Evans (editor) *''The BBC Reports: On America, Its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism'' (2002) *''Best American Magazine Writing 2002'' (2002) *''War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq'' (2003) * *''We the People'' (2007) *''My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times'' (2009) * ''Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters'', New York: Back Bay Books, 2018,


References


External links


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Radio and television programmes


BBC Radio 4 – A Point of View
13-week series from 29 July 2005
Love Letter to America
BBC News, 29 July 2005
BBC audio interview 16 May 2005They Made America
PBS
“A Word on Words; 2719; Harold Evans,”
1998-12-01, Nashville Public Television,
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Interviews


Harold Evans: They Made America
from ''Bill Thompson's Eye on Books'', audio of Harold Evans interview
The American Century
from ''
CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...
Book News'', 13 November 1998, includes audio clips from Harold Evans
The American Century
transcript of Harold Evans interview from ''
PBS NewsHour ''PBS News Hour'', previously stylized as ''PBS NewsHour'', is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening news broadcasting#television, television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS Network affiliate#Member stations, member stat ...
'', 8 June 1999
Media Giants: Harry Evans
profile on ''Media Circus'', July 2007

from ''
PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...
MediaShift'', 29 October 2009, interview includes audio clips *, ''
Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency ...
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