Creighton Lee Burns, AO (19 March 1925 – 19 January 2008) was an Australian journalist and academic, who was editor-in-chief of The Age newspaper in Melbourne from 1981 to 1989.
[1] After World War II, Burns returned to Australia where he attended the University of Melbourne on a government grant, and achieved first-class honours in history.
At Oxford, Burns was granted scholarships to study at Nuffield and Balliol Colleges, where he gained first-class honours in philosophy, politics and economics, and a Master of Arts.
[2] One of the biggest stories overseen by Burns was "The Age tapes" affair, a landmark in Australian judicial-political history.
[4] Burns retired from The Age in 1989, but remained in public life as the chancellor of the Victoria University of Technology and president of the Melbourne Savage Club.