Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
Arthur Christiansen Quotes
The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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| Birth: | 27th July, 1904 |
| Death: | 27th September, 1963 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Editor, Journalist |
About
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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