Cyril Alston Pearl (11 April 1904 – 3 March 1987) was an Australian journalist, author, and television personality.

Cyril returned to Victoria to attended the University of Melbourne, where he studied philosophy and Russian, leaving without a degree.

Together with other former Star journalists, he travelled north to Sydney where he joined Sir Frank Packer's Daily Telegraph, and was soon made features editor.

He made a brief return to journalism after Rupert Murdoch persuaded him to become editor of The Sunday Mirror in Sydney in 1960.

[2] His literary friends included Clive Turnbull, Richard Hughes, Clem Christesen, Peter Ryan, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot.