He was rapidly promoted, and by the end of the decade was overseeing the Perthshire and Dundee editions of the People's Journal.
[1] At the end of the war, Gordon took work with the Evening News, then in 1922 he moved to become Chief Sub-editor of the Daily Express.
Editor Beverley Baxter promised to increase his wages, but forgot, and Gordon resigned.
However, owner Lord Beaverbrook was keen to retain Gordon, and appointed him editor of the Sunday Express in 1928.
[1] In one column in 1953 he criticised Sir John Gielgud, who had been fined £10 by magistrates for importuning, and saw the incident as an example of "moral rot" and suggested such "social lepers" should be completely ignored.