Sir Edward Davies Pickering (4 May 1912 – 8 August 2003) was a British newspaper editor.
[1] He attended Middlesbrough High School and then entered journalism as an apprentice with the Northern Echo.
During World War II, he joined the Royal Artillery, rising to become a major by the end of the conflict, and working closely with Dwight D.
Without making any major changes, he was able to increase sales by 200,000 copies per day, but owner Lord Beaverbrook disliked his laid-back approach to the job, and sacked him in 1962.
He retired in 1977 and was knighted in that year, but in 1981 he became executive vice-chairman of News International.