Colin Valdar
Colin Valdar (18 December 1918 – 11 January 1996) was a British newspaper editor.
Valdar studied at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, then in Hampstead. He worked as a freelance journalist from 1935 to 39, then served with the Royal Engineers during World War II. In 1942, he became features editor with the Sunday Pictorial, soon moving to become assistant editor. In 1946, he moved to the Daily Express, again as features editor, and in 1951, they too promoted Valdar to assistant editor. In 1953, Valdar returned to the Sunday Pictorial as editor, serving until 1959. For last two years of his tenure, he was also a director of the publishing company.[1] He was able to raise circulation to five million copies per issue.[2]
In 1959, Valdar became editor of the Daily Sketch, serving three years in the post. He was also appointed to the council of the Commonwealth Press Union.[1] In 1964, he briefly served on the board of Liberal News, the official Liberal Party newspaper but, the following year, he worked with his wife Jill and brother Stewart to set up a weekly journal for the newspaper industry, which soon became the Press Gazette.[2] Valdar took the title of publisher, but remained strongly involved with supervising the content. The family retired in 1983.[3]
References
- ^ a b The International Who's Who (1961), pp. 991–992
- ^ a b David North, "A bow tie and an open door Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine", Press Gazette, 25 November 2005
- ^ Roy Greenslade, "UK Press Gazette: 1965-2006", Guardian Unlimited, 27 November 2006
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Preceded by Hugh Cudlipp | Editor of the Sunday Pictorial 1953–1959 | Succeeded by Lee Howard |
Preceded by Bert Gunn | Editor of the Daily Sketch 1959–1962 | Succeeded by Howard French |
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