Arthur Waters

Arthur George Waters (27 February 1888 – 17 November 1953) was a British newspaper editor.

Waters grew up in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, and began his career in journalism with the Barry Dock News. He subsequently became a sub-editor at the Western Mail and the Evening Express in Cardiff, then joined the News of the World in 1914. He gradually rose through the ranks, and was appointed as editor of the paper in 1947, serving until his sudden and unexpected death in 1953.[1] By then, the newspaper was selling more than 8,000,000 copies per issue.[2]

References

  1. ^ "WATERS, Arthur George", Who Was Who
  2. ^ "Reginald Cudlipp", The Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2005
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Editors of the Daily Herald, The Sun and the News of the World
Daily Herald
  • 1912: William H. Seed
  • 1912: Roland Kenney
  • 1913: Charles Lapworth
  • 1913: George Lansbury
  • 1922: W. P. Ryan
  • 1922: Hamilton Fyfe
  • 1926: William Mellor
  • 1931: W. H. Stevenson
  • 1936: Francis Williams
  • 1940: Percy Cudlipp
  • 1953: Sydney Elliott
  • 1957: Douglas Machray
  • 1960: John Beaven
  • 1962: Sydney Jacobson
The Sun
  • 1964: Sydney Jacobson
  • 1965: Dick Dinsdale
  • 1969: Larry Lamb
  • 1972: Bernard Shrimsley
  • 1975: Larry Lamb
  • 1981: Kelvin MacKenzie
  • 1994: Stuart Higgins
  • 1998: David Yelland
  • 2003: Rebekah Wade
  • 2009: Dominic Mohan
  • 2013: David Dinsmore
  • 2015: Tony Gallagher
  • 2020: Victoria Newton
News of the World
  • 1843: John Browne Bell
  • 1855: John William Bell
  • 1877: Walter John Bell and Adolphus William Bell
  • 1891: Emsley Carr
  • 1941: David Percy Davies
  • 1946: Robert Skelton
  • 1947: Arthur Waters
  • 1953: Reg Cudlipp
  • 1960: Stafford Somerfield
  • 1970: Cyril Lear
  • 1974: Peter Stephens
  • 1975: Bernard Shrimsley
  • 1980: Kenneth Donlan
  • 1981: Barry Askew
  • 1981: Derek Jameson
  • 1984: Nicholas Lloyd
  • 1985: David Montgomery
  • 1987: Wendy Henry
  • 1988: Patsy Chapman
  • 1993: Stuart Higgins
  • 1994: Piers Morgan
  • 1995: Phil Hall
  • 2000: Rebekah Wade
  • 2003: Andy Coulson
  • 2007: Colin Myler