Charles Wintour

Under his leadership, the Evening Standard was described as a "blend of popular and serious news and opinion" which prefigured many of the broadsheets of the 21st century".

He wrote articles for the Radio Times when he was at Oundle School and won a prize awarded by the Daily Mail.

[3] After Cambridge, Wintour took an advertising job in London but left at the start of World War II to join the Royal Norfolk Regiment.

Wintour remained the editor until 1976, when he became managing director of the Daily Express and supervised its transition from a broadsheet to a tabloid.

The Express Group was sold to Trafalgar House, and new owner Victor Matthews appointed Wintour editor of the Standard again in 1978.

A year later, Wintour became editor of the Press Gazette and advised on the launch of Today, The Independent, the new Daily News,[3] and the breakfast television show TV-am.

[5] He wrote two books based on his experience: Pressures on the Press in 1972,[7] an account of decision-making during every hour of the day in a newsroom; and The Rise and Fall of Fleet Street in 1989,[8] an analysis of London's Fleet Street as a publishing centre and the people responsible for its historic rise and the more recent responses to new technology.

Wintour retired in 1989 and spent his later years supporting the Liberal Democrats and chairing the regional National Art Collections Fund.