Brian MacArthur (5 February 1940 – 24 March 2019) was a British newspaper editor.

Brian MacArthur
Born(1940-02-05)5 February 1940
Died24 March 2019(2019-03-24) (aged 79)
NationalityBritish
EducationBrentwood School
Helsby Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
OccupationJournalist

Early life

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MacArthur studied at Brentwood School, Helsby Grammar School and the University of Leeds.

Career

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In 1962, he entered journalism, his first job being at the Yorkshire Post. After two years, he moved to Manchester to work on the Daily Mail, and he then worked at The Guardian for a year before joining The Times in 1967 where he was Education Correspondent and then founder editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1971. He stood down in 1976 to become News Editor of The Times and was Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard from 1978 to 1979. His next post was Chief Assistant to the Editor of the Sunday Times, then after a year at The Times, he was appointed joint Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times.

He left in 1984 to become Editor of the Western Morning News, but returned to London in 1986 to becoming the founding Editor-in-Chief of Today. One year later, he returned to the Sunday Times as Executive Editor, moving back to The Times in 1991. From 2006 to 2010, he was Assistant Editor of The Daily Telegraph.[1]

MacArthur also wrote and edited several books on historical and journalistic themes, including Eddy Shah: Today and the Newspaper Revolution, Deadline Sunday, Surviving the Sword and For King and Country and edited The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches.

MacArthur died of leukaemia on 24 March 2019.[2]

Honours

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In 1997 MacArthur was awarded an honorary MA by the Open University, and in 2011 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Plymouth University.[citation needed]

MacArthur was interviewed by National Life Stories (C467/11) in 2007 for the 'Oral History of the British Press' collection held by the British Library.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "MacARTHUR, Brian", Who's Who
  2. ^ Wood, Heloise (2019-03-26). "Author and journalist Brian MacArthur dies aged 79". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  3. ^ National Life Stories, 'MacArthur, Brian (1 of 5) National Life Stories Collection: 'Oral History of the British Press', The British Library Board, 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
Media offices
Preceded by
Richard Bourne
Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard
1978–1979
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ron Hall and Hugo Young
Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times
1982–1984
with Hugo Young
Succeeded by
Ivan Fallon
Preceded by
New position
Editor of Today
1986–1987
Succeeded by