My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: ‘Good heavens’, when you looked at the middle page you said: ‘Holy smoke’, and by the time you got to the back page—well, I’d have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.
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| Birth: | 27th July, 1904 |
| Death: | 27th September, 1963 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Editor, Journalist |
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Arthur Christiansen was born in Wallasey, England. He was a British journalist, and editor of Lord Beaverbrook's newspaper the Daily Express from 1933 to 1957. At 16, he became a reporter for the Wallasey and Wirral Chronicle, where he worked for three years before moving to the Liverpool Evening Express and the Liverpool Daily Courier. He was named the London editor of the Evening Express in 1925, a position he held for a year before moving to the Sunday Express. Christiansen made his reputation four years later, when, as assistant editor, he produced a special late-morning edition of the Sunday Express to report the R101 airship disaster. In 1961. he was cast as the editor of the Daily Express in the Fleet Street-based sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
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