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Harold Evans

Harold Evans is editor at large for Thomson Reuters. In a long life, he has done pretty well everything in journalism: reporter, columnist, broadcaster, author, editor of dailies and Sundays and, in the US, of a tabloid

September 2018

  • The Guardian printing press, Stratford, London.

    Book of the week
    Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger – review

    Rusbridger’s mission to defend journalistic standards is at the heart of this compelling memoir of his Guardian years, writes the former Sunday Times and Times editor

June 2017

  • Words composite.

    The 35 words you’re (probably) getting wrong

    Have you made a flagrant error, in confusing your alternative choices? The legendary Fleet Street editor Harold Evans proscribes this glossary to solve your language dilemmas

April 2015

  • Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch

    The long read
    How Thatcher and Murdoch made their secret deal

    The long read: In 1981, Mrs Thatcher needed a boost from the press. By supporting Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the Times and Sunday Times, she made sure she got it. Harold Evans, who led an unsuccessful staff takeover bid, reveals a historic carve-up

November 2014

  • Child victim of thalidomide

    Thalidomide: how men who blighted lives of thousands evaded justice

    Harold Evans
    Newly exposed files show how victims were betrayed by political interference in trial – and how the pill has remained on sale

October 2013

  • NSA emblem

    The media has a duty to scrutinise the use of power

    Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: No editor wants to give aid to murderous enemies, but abuses of power must be revealed

November 2012

  • MARGARET THATCHER AND RUPERT MURDOCH

    Leveson: a clever report – but why the silence on ownership?

    Harold Evans
  • Former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans

    Leveson report leaves press ownership unresolved, says Harold Evans

September 2012

  • Thalidomide

    Still no shame for thalidomide cover-up

    Victims of the drug scandal have been offered an apology, but Harold Evans, who was in charge of the Sunday Times and broke the story, says there is still no proper recompense

April 2012

  • rupert murdoch leveson

    Rupert Murdoch: myth, memory and imagination

    Harold Evans
    Harold Evans: The version of history told by Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry bears no relation to what happened

September 2011

  • Rupert Murdoch in 1981, flanked by Harold Evans and William Rees Mogg

    Harold Evans: 'Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator'

  • Sir Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: A free press has always had to contend with police officers waving the Official Secrets Act

June 2010

  • A Gulf that unites Britain and America

    Harold Evans
    Harold Evans: As a Brit-born American, I see how the two spills – Robert Green's and BP's – are part of one close relationship

January 2010

  • Lessons of a Mass revolt

    Harold Evans
    Harold Evans: Though many oppose health reform, Barack Obama's rejection in Massachusetts is mainly because millions are still out of work

October 2009

  • A moral atrocity

    Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: Judge Goldstone has been suckered into letting war criminals use his name to pillory Israel

December 2008

  • The curious pursuit of the honourable Peter Hain

    Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: After he was framed as a bank robber, I helped clear his name. Now he's been singled out for another non-crime

November 2008

  • Mad about The One

    Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: The US media have been captivated by Obama, at the expense of their curiosity and scepticism

May 2008

  • Full profile

    Harold Evans, in a long life, has done pretty well everything in journalism: reporter, columnist, broadcaster, author, editor of dailies and Sundays and, in the US, of a tabloid

March 2007

  • What would you change?
    Rediscovering America

    Harold Evans

  • When a journalist dies, we are all responsible

    Harold Evans

February 2007

  • Mugging the over-75s

    Harold Evans

    Harold Evans: The Treasury is working on a plan which could land descendants of the elderly with a tax bill that is greater than their inheritance.

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