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Harold Evans

July 2024

  • Joshi Herrmann of Mill Media for Observer Review feature

    Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news

    Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Enter a new generation of online reporters…

May 2023

  • Tina Brown

    Investigative journalism at risk from ‘corporate timidity’, says Tina Brown

    Widow of ex-editor Harry Evans runs foundation supporting original reportage, which is holding first event this week

April 2023

  • Michael Roberts

    Michael Roberts obituary

    Fashion journalist and illustrator who helped transform Tatler magazine into a leading glossy

March 2021

  • Newspaper front pages

    Truth, profits and the purpose of journalism

    Letters: Integrity is in short supply in many newsrooms, argues Michael Newman, while Eddie O’Brien says journalists must do more to reflect opposing views in their reports

December 2020

  • Harold Evans photographed at the high court for the Observer by David Newell Smith, mid-1970s.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2020
    Harold Evans remembered by Darren Mansell

    The thalidomide campaigner on a ‘true English gent’, the newspaper giant who brought the scandal to the world’s attention

November 2020

  • Harold Evans in 1978.

    Letter: Sir Harold Evans obituary

  • Sir Harold Evans death<br>File photo dated 13/1/2016 of Fleet Street legend Sir Harold Evans who has died in New York aged 92. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday September 24, 2020. The former editor of The Sunday Times and editor-at-large for the Reuters news agency died of congestive heart failure, his wife Tina Brown said. See PA story DEATH Evans. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Letter: Sir Harry Evans obituary

  • Harold Evans

    Insights into Harold Evans' pioneering career

    Letters: Memories of the renowned editor’s campaigns are shared by Sonia Jackson and Michael Meadowcroft
  • Harold Evans in 1982.

    The Harold Evans I remember was a great craftsman, a crusader… and a rival without peer

    Donald Trelford
    A former Observer editor remembers a journalist with energy, imagination and grit
  • ‘A staunch champion of all the best values of journalism’: Harold Evans.

    The Observer view on the formidable career and legacy of Sir Harold Evans

    The truth-seeking national newspaper editor was a giant who inspired a generation of journalists
  • A small child affected by thalidomide in 1962.

    How Harry Evans took up the long fight for thalidomide families

    A member of the team who worked on the Sunday Times campaign, and a survivor of the drug’s effects tell how the renowned editor changed their lives
  • Guy Tweedy, from Harrogate (right), with his ‘dear friend’ Harold Evans.

    Thalidomide survivors mourn Harold Evans, their hero and friend

    Former Sunday Times editor’s genius and empathy will be missed, say campaigners
  • Harold Evans in 1970. In the following deacde he led a team of talented journalists who pulled off one triumph after another.

    Sir Harold Evans obituary

    Journalist who at the Sunday Times became the most admired newspaper editor of his generation
    • Sir Harold Evans – a life in pictures

    • Harold Evans taught us what journalism at its best can achieve

      Alan Rusbridger
    • Sir Harold Evans, trail-blazing newspaper editor, dies aged 92

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