Brian MacArthur (5 February 1940 – 24 March 2019) was a British newspaper editor.
After two years, he moved to Manchester to work on the Daily Mail, and he then worked at The Guardian for a year before joining The Times in 1967 where he was Education Correspondent and then founder editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1971.
He left in 1984 to become Editor of the Western Morning News, but returned to London in 1986 to becoming the founding Editor-in-Chief of Today.
[1] MacArthur also wrote and edited several books on historical and journalistic themes, including Eddy Shah: Today and the Newspaper Revolution, Deadline Sunday, Surviving the Sword and For King and Country and edited The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches.
[citation needed] MacArthur was interviewed by National Life Stories (C467/11) in 2007 for the 'Oral History of the British Press' collection held by the British Library.