Roger Wood (4 October 1925 – 2 November 2012) was the editor of the Daily Express and New York Post.
Wood was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and spoke no English until he was seven when he moved with his family to Great Britain.
[2] In 1975, he began working for Rupert Murdoch and edited the weekly Star Magazine until his move to The New York Post.
In 1977, he became executive editor of the Post, succeeding Edwin Bolwell, six months after Murdoch bought the paper.
Some of the newspapers most famous headlines occurred on his watch including "Headless Body in Topless Bar" (about a murder in Queens, New York); "Eleven Dead and the Band Played On" (about a fatal stampede at a The Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "Granny Executed in Her Pink Pajamas".