Dethroned "Queen Of Buzz" Stages Comeback Oct 27, 2008
" The young woman thrived. At just 23, she had already written two plays and was working as a freelance journalist for the Times of London - Harold Evans was the editor. "I've worked with many great writers and Tina has an uncanny capacity for two things," Evans says. "Mimicry. She's a very good mimic. (CBS News)
Feelin' Sorry for W Oct 16, 2008
At the dinner following the screening last night at the Metropolitan Club, Stone was happy to accept kudos from the cast, as well as loads of other actors who came to see his finished work including actors Marisa Berenson and Charles Keating, media heavyweights Harold Evans and Tina Brown, Dan Abrams, Men s Health editor Dave Zinczenko, Catherine Crier, Jill Brooke, Miramax s Daniel Battsek, "Gossip Girl" actor Matthew Settle, and so on. Stone told me that during the making of the film, he... (Fox News)
Fingleton's new blast for Bradman Oct 14, 2008
When Britain's The Times ran excerpts from Fingleton's autobiography, Fingleton wrote to its editor Harold Evans saying the book would not appeal to many of the paper's traditional readers because they idolised Bradman and resented the slightest criticism of him "but if you are deluged with letters taking his side and weighing into me, perhaps I might be sent them and given the right of reply". Noted Fingleton in that letter to Evans: "O'Reilly's opinion of DGB correspond with me. No one doubted... (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Once again, shes the talk of the town Oct 11, 2008
By then her reputation was already established X she was making waves while still at Oxford University, wrote a column for Punch magazine and struck up a relationship with her editor at the Sunday Times, Harold Evans, who she went on to marry in 1981. She took the Tatler, swept aside its staid, debutante air, and turned it into an organ that people talked about. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The media's addiction to controversy can seriously damage your health Aug 13, 2008
Nearly all journalists aspire to emulate two stories: the Watergate scandal, which brought down a US president; and the thalidomide scandal, which, after years of campaigning and legal battles, forced a multinational giant to eat humble pie, and made Harold Evans and his Sunday Times Insight team world famous. Watergate explains why newspapers fiercely pursue public figures accused of minor expenses fiddling, attach "gate" to their names and try to implicate anybody up to and including Downing... (guardian.co.uk)
HARRY EVANS: NY TIMES 'desperately needs to rethink its whole design'... Jul 21, 2008
Harold Evans: 'These grand designs must have stories to back them up' - Media, News - The Independent ... Harold Evans: 'These grand designs must have stories to back them up ... Harold Evans is one of journalism's great innovators. (The Drudge Report)
Advice for Marcus Brauchli Jul 8, 2008
Unless you want your staff to think of you as the guy who zipped his lips for $3 million, may I suggest that you say what Harold Evans and every other editor swindled by Murdoch has ultimately said: I knew Murdoch was capable of lies, monstrous lies, heinous lies, but I thought it would be different with me. I was naive, which is hard for a journalist to admit. (Slate)
Let Murdoch Be Murdoch May 2, 2008
For instance, when he bought the Times of London in 1981, he promised new editor Harold Evans editorial independence. He started breaking his promises almost immediately, and when Evans confronted him, Murdoch allegedly said, "They're not worth the paper they're written on." As Evans writes of Murdoch in his 1984 book, Good Times, Bad Times, he's like "the philanderer who convinces each new girl that she's the one who'll change him.". (Slate)
Truth, lies and photo captions Feb 9, 2008
As doyen British journalist Harold Evans remarked in Pictures on a Page. The wordless picture story may have an aesthetic rigor but words can enhance both emotional and cognitive values: They are not competitive; they are complementary. (Asia Times Online)
The great unknown Jan 12, 2008
He and Harold Evans, head of Random House, were thanked in the book's acknowledgements as "some people who don't know who I am". Journalists speculated about the author's identity on behalf of the readers. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Brits abroadThe expats who keep the flame flickering for British political parties Jan 3, 2008
With Labour's 1997 victory and new prime minister Tony Blair visiting the US, a reception of New York's finest was held in the residence of Harold Evans, former Sunday Times editor, and his wife Tina Brown. Tory supporters abroad pine for the Tory Britain. (BBC News -- UK)
Canada lacks the courage of Somali journalists Aug 15, 2007
As Sir Harold Evans, a former editor of The Times put it recently: "This is different from the sadly familiar fact that by-lined war correspondents, who knowingly risk their lives, get fatally caught in the crossfire of a battlefield, they walk on a land mine, they hitch a ride on a fated combat plane, they are mistaken for combatants. The majority of journalists' deaths are not bad luck. They are planned assassinations. They have been targeted, sought out for death at home for a very simple... (Globe and Mail)
Court ruling supports claims that Microsoft's first OS was stolen Aug 2, 2007
In a book on American innovation, author Sir Harold Evans wrote that DOS inventor Tim Paterson relied heavily on an existing OS called CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) created by a programmer who has since died ... Ultimately, Zilly said that "Tim Paterson has failed to provide any evidence that statements in Sir Harold Evans' chapter on Gary Kildall are provably false or defamatory.". (EETimes)
Rupert Murdoch: a lifetime of deals Aug 1, 2007
Times editor Harold Evans is forced out after a year, claiming Murdoch interfered with the running of the paper. 1985 - buys 20th Century Fox film business and a clutch of local TV stations, which over the next decade he will build into the Fox network, the fourth national TV network in the US.. (Guardian Unlimited)
Princess as celebrity Jul 30, 2007
"In the process of writing," she said, "I became a writer." Brown's husband, journalist and former Sunday Times of London Editor Harold Evans, cheered her on: "Loosen your belt here. Let it rip." Sometimes she overdid it. "There's just so far you can go. You want to dilate off the point, but not to the point that you're losing readers." Former editor Brown is in the habit of speaking in precise terms: "About three paragraphs to the point is quite enough. Two thousand words is off the point.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Murdoch's Journal offer is too good to pass up Jul 24, 2007
My friend Harold Evans, who once edited the Times of London under Murdoch's ownership, wrote in a critical book that "Murdoch issued promises as prudently as the Weimar Republic issued marks.". All of which means that, in an ideal world, the Bancrofts wouldn't let Murdoch within a mile of the Journal. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Publishing's Power Couple Chronicle a New Chapter Aboard Queen Mary 2 Jul 19, 2007
July 19 /CNW/ -- Literary luminaries Sir Harold Evans and Tina Brown, with their children, Isabel and George, boarded Queen Mary 2 yesterday, the world's grandest ocean liner, for a mid-season Transatlantic Crossing. Frequent Cunard guests, Brown will lecture on her New York Times bestseller, The Diana Chronicles, while Evans enjoys a much-deserved break from his critically acclaimed work on modern American innovators. (Canada Newswire)
Princess of parties Jun 23, 2007
The Manhattan apartment she shares with her husband, Harold Evans, is unmistakably English: all spindly-legged furniture, cluttered surfaces and the cool, blueish gloom of the formal drawing room ... Brown was 30 when she arrived in New York to edit Vanity Fair and only 22 when she met Harold Evans, then editor of the Sunday Times and married with two children. (Guardian Unlimited)
Dow Jones Shareholder Ottaway Would Prefer General Electric, Pearson Bid Jun 21, 2007
Murdoch broke all those guarantees, according to the book ``Good Times, Bad Times'' by Harold Evans, whom Murdoch named editor of the Times in 1981. Evans left a year later after a falling out with Murdoch. (Bloomberg)
'Diana' chronicler Brown feted at book party (Ann Geracimos) Jun 18, 2007
Neither Dr. Dozoretz nor noted author-editor Harold Evans, who is Mrs. Brown's husband, were present. . (Washington Times)
Katie Couric Hosts 'All-Star' Fundraiser on Queen Mary 2 Jun 12, 2007
Co-Chairs Tina Brown And Harold Evans Gather Stars To Spotlight Stuttering. BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Institute for Stuttering (AIS) held a first-ever charity luncheon on Sunday, June 10 aboard Cunard's flagship Queen Mary 2 to present the Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Leadership Awards. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Project Tina draws a galaxy of stars Jun 10, 2007
Known for her workaholism, Brown, 53, married to the author and journalist Sir Harold Evans, will embark on a marathon series of interviews to heighten the publicity. She is booked to appear on Channel 4's Richard BBC2's This Week, GMTV's Sunday Programme, Sky News and BBC Radios 2, 4 and 5 Live. (The Observer)
All talk and lots of action Jun 9, 2007
3 million) advance, will be published by HarperCollins, which was once run by her husband, the former editor of London's Sunday Times Harold Evans, 79, and serialised by Vanity Fair, the magazine she used to edit. Much is riding on its success. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Belle of Buzz does Princess Di Jun 8, 2007
Married: Sir Harold Evans, 78 ... Brown has since become an American citizen, but she's still British; in fact, she's Lady Evans, as the wife of Sir Harold Evans, 78, former editor, publisher and author, and father of her two children. (USA Today)
Dow Jones meeting constructive: Murdoch Jun 5, 2007
Notably, former Times editor Harold Evans was ousted after testing the boundaries of editorial independence at the paper subsequent to Murdoch's purchase in the early 1980s, according to his book Good Times, Bad Times. The IAPE Dow Jones workers union said it had retained the services of the Ownership Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is working with the Communications Workers of America and the Newspaper Guild to explore alternative bids. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Murdoch Reassures Bancrofts on Dow Jones Deal Jun 5, 2007
Notably, former Times editor Harold Evans was ousted after testing the boundaries of editorial independence at the paper after Murdoch's purchase in the early 1980s, according to his book "Good Times, Bad Times.". The meeting will be held at the offices of family legal adviser Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen according to the Journal report. (Newsmax)
Related: Celebrating with rich, famous over a 1993 Dom Perignon May 9, 2007
Another noted journalist, former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans, joins them. Table 7: Former Hollinger executive Peter Atkinson was at the table; he now stands accused alongside Conrad Black. (Globe and Mail)
Press Unveiled! May 4, 2007
Deriding Murdoch s recent assurances that he would respect the paper s editorial independence and be a great guardian of the publication, the WSJ quoted extensively from the book written by former Times of London (a British daily owned by Murdoch) editor Harold Evans. Said the WSJ, Mr. Evans went on to write a vitriolic account of his stint at the Times in which he accused Mr. Murdoch of eroding the Times standards and breaking promises he made to maintain the paper s editorial independence. (Multichannel News)
Tina Brown set to unleash 'most controversial book on Princess Diana ever'... Apr 22, 2007
The expose initially stunned a Royal court that was unprepared for such an uncompromising assault by so well-informed and well-connected a source - Tina Brown is the wife of Sir Harold Evans, the highly respected former editor of The Sunday Times. But despite a hurriedly arranged rearguard action, in which tame friends of Charles and Diana were lined up to rubbish Brown's account, Royal reporting would never be the same again. (The Drudge Report)
No Meeting for Helen Mirren and the Real Queen Mar 16, 2007
So Mirren herself told a small group of heavy-hitters last night at an elegant dinner party served up at their East Side duplex by Harold Evans and Tina Brown. Mirren was not the only member of the royal family to attend the swanky dinner. (Fox News -- Views)
Divorce As A Spectator Sport Mar 11, 2007
"People think I'm an expert on divorce, but I've been happily married for half a century. I just listen to people's stories and write." Adler was a guest at Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center's dinner at Doubles the other night, where Gloria Steinem was honored before the likes of Marianne Strong, Dominick Dunne, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Bruce Jay Friedman, Harold Evans, Denise LeFrak, Mario Buatta and Eliza beth Strong Cuevas. Adler said he'd... (New York Post -- Gossip)
- New York v London: the battle of the capitals Feb 10, 2007
Sir Harold Evans, once editor of the Sunday Times and author of The American Century, who has lived there since the 1980s, says the city's traditional ebullience is more evident than ever. "The energy in New York exceeds anywhere else in the world, even Dubai. You can't touch London for its cultural brilliance, but compare the two cities and the feeling is that if something big is going to happen, in a benevolent sense, it is going to happen here.". (Guardian Unlimited)
Shoot an arrogant messenger Jan 12, 2007
The standard reporters' question of the 1950s and '60s - "Have you anything you wish to say to us, Prime Minister?" - had been replaced by the advice of Harold Evans, a former editor of The Sunday Times: "Always ask yourself, when you interview a politician - why is this bastard lying to me?". In 1997 Tony Blair took power and the conflict reached a climax. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
