Brian Hitchen, CBE (8 July 1936 – 2 December 2013) was a British newspaper editor.
[2] Hitchen began his career with the Daily Despatch in Manchester as a copyboy, and then joined the Bury Times as a trainee reporter a year later.
Whilst working for the Daily Mirror's New York City bureau he reported on the 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and on the May 1970 Bogota Bracelet scandal involving England's captain, Bobby Moore, before the 1970 World Cup.
[3] Hitchen edited the Daily Star from 1987 to 1994, when he became the editor of the Sunday Express for a year.
[4] Hitchen was appointed a CBE in Margaret Thatcher's resignation honours list in 1990.