Sir Harold Matthew Evans (natural 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. He has written various books in history & journalism. Since Will 2005, Evans has been a contributor to The Huffington Post, and since July 2005, he has been contributing the each week radio comment BBC Radio 4.

Evans was innate around Manchester, where he attended school using [Lord Alfred Morris ], world health organization nicknamed him "Poshie" due to the fact that he was the simply son in the school whose father - a railway driver - owned an motorcar. His career began as a newsperson for a each week newspaper at the age of Xvi. Fallowing service in the Royal Air Inflict, he entered Durham University in which he graduated by using honors politics & political economy & afterward an expert of Arts. He became an Supporter Editor of the Manchester Evening News & won the Harkness Fellowship inside 1956-7 for travel & learn in the United States. He began to produce a reputatiin on link to from either the U.S. whilst he was appointed editor of the regional daily A Northern Echo, within which one of his campaigns resulted in the subject programme for the detection of cervical cancer.

In the period of his 14-month tenure when editor of the Sunday Days, Evans was responsible that newspaper's crusading style of fact-finding coverage which brought to public attention numerous stories & scandals which were officially denied or even ignored.

1 such report was just about a plight of hundreds of British Thalidomide children who got never got any compensation for the severe congenital abnormality occasionally of the babies experienced suffered. This turned into an on-going campaign for the newspaper's Insight investigatory team, & Evans himself took on the pharma responsible the manufacture of Thalidomide, pursuing the two through the English courts & yet gaining triumph in the European Court of Human Rights. Following, a those' families won compensation fallowing to the higher degree a decade.

More influential investigatory reports involved a exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy and a publication of the diaries of previous Labour Minister Richard Crossman, thereby risking prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.

Whilst Rupert Murdoch acquired the company around 1981, Evans was appointed editor of The Times. But, he remained by having a paper merely a year, resigning on top policy differences on to editorial independence. In allowing A Days, Evans became director of Goldcrest Films & Television.

Within 1984, Evans moved to the United States, where he taught at Duke University. He was later on appointed editor-within-chief of The Atlantic Monthly Click & down the road became editorial director of US News and World Report.

Evans was appointive president & publisher of Random House trade group from either 1990 to 1997 & editorial director & vice chairman of United states News & Globe Report, a New York Daily News, and The Atlantic Monthly from 1997 to January 2000, when he resigned to concentrate in writing.

Evans best known operate A American Century won critical accaim when it was published around 1998. It Manufactured Usa, a sequel published within 2004, described the lasts of a few of the united states's first inventors & innovators, and was adapted as a 4-section television miniseries that same season.

Evans was knighted for services to journalism in 2004.

He presently sleep in New York City with his wife Tina Brown and their two tykes.

Works
Radio and Television programs
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View] Long dozen-week series from either July 29, 2005 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4727311.stm BBC Magazine article 29 July 2005] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_lettersfromus_20050516.ram BBC audio interview 16 May 2005] [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/ PBS - They Made America] official site

Books
I a Population (2007) ISBN 0316277177 It Processed America: Both Centuries of Groundbreaker from either a Steam Engine to the Lookup Engine (2004) ISBN 0316277665 War Stories: Coverage in a Period of Conflict from either the Crimea to Iraq (2003) ISBN 1593730055 A BBC Reports: In America, Its Allies & Enemies, & a Counterattack in Terrorist act (2002) ISBN 1585672998 Right U.s. Magazine Writing 2002 (2002) ISBN 1586481371 Shots in the Dark: Avowedly Crime Pictures (2001) by Gail Buckland, Harold Evans ISBN 0821227750 A Right Western Magazine Writing 2001 (2001) Harold Evans (editor) ISBN 158648088X Essential English: For Journalists, Editors & Writers (2000) ISBN 0712664475 War of Words: Memoirs of the South African Journalist (2000) by Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans ISBN 1888363711 A Our contries Century (1998) ISBN 0679410708 Pictures in the Web page: Photo-Journalism, Graphics & Picture Editing (1997) ISBN 0712673881 Eyewitness Deuce: Three Decades Across Globe Click Photograph (1992) ISBN 0907621554 Makers of Photographic History (1990) ISBN 094848909X ''Assignments: A Click Photographers' Association Yearbook (Assignments) (1988) by Harold Evans (designer), Anna Tait (editor) ISBN 0714825018 Redaction & Project: Book Two: Treating Newspaper Text (1986) ISBN 0434905488 Dependable Days, Bad Days (1984) ISBN 0689114656

Front Home History: Cases of My Century That Shook the World (1984) ISBN 0881620513

Redaction & Project (1974) ISBN 0434905526 Treating Newspaper Text (1974) ISBN 0030120411 News Newspaper headline (1974) ISBN 0030075017 Newspaper Project (1973) ISBN 0434905542 Redaction & Project: The 5-Volume Manual of English, Typography & Layout'' (1972) ISBN 043490550X