Sir Harold Evans: Former Sunday Times editor dies aged 92
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A year earlier, a poll by the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review named him the greatest newspaper editor of all time.Sir Harold Evans was appointed editor-at-large at the Reuters news agency in 2011 Thalidomide, which first appeared in the UK in 1958, was prescribed to expectant mothers to control the symptoms of morning sickness.
Journalists paid tribute to his campaigning work on the Thalidomide scandal and other injustices. Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the Daily Mirror, said he was an"inspiring editor" who"embodied the best of journalism".
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