Percy Cudlipp began his journalistic career as a messenger boy for the South Wales Echo, later training as a reporter, and in 1924 became a columnist for the Evening Chronicle in Manchester.
[1] As a socialist, Cudlipp was suspicious of the Fascist movement in Germany and encouraged a campaign against them.
In 1953, Cudlipp unexpectedly resigned the editorship of the Daily Herald, an action that has been attributed to the ongoing conflicts between the paper's management and the trade union movement[8] and the difficulty of retaining editorial control.
[10] He was a frequent radio broadcaster, contributing to quiz shows and news programmes on the BBC World Service.
[11] He died suddenly, at his home, 11 Falmouth House, Clarendon Place, London, just short of his 57th birthday, while still employed as editor of the New Scientist.