John Leese
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1930 –
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Who is John Leese?
John Leese was a British newspaper editor.
Leese studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. He edited the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the mid-1960s, then moved to London to work on the Evening News. The paper closed in 1980, and Leese moved to New York and produced the SoHo News for a year.
He returned to the UK to launch You magazine for the Mail on Sunday, then in 1986 became Editor of the Evening Standard. He resigned early in 1991 due to illness, and died in September of that year. His son, Mike Leese, was also a news editor at the Evening Standard.
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