Robert Edwards is a British journalist.

Edwards was editor of Tribune

Tribune (magazine)

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(1951–54), a feature writer on the Evening Standard

Evening Standard

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(1954–57), deputy editor of the Sunday Express (1957–59), managing editor of the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

(1959–61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen

Evening Citizen

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(1962–63), editor of the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

again (1963–65), editor of the Sunday People (1966–72) and editor of the Sunday Mirror

Sunday Mirror

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(1972–84). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988.

Edwards published an autobiography in 1988, Goodbye Fleet Street.