Arthur Firth

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Arthur Firth''' was an editor of the ''[[Daily Express]]'' between June 1980 and October 1981.<ref>{{cite web|title=Editors of the Daily Express|url=http://web.me.com/alimcintyre/Daily_Drone/Editors.html|work=The Drone|accessdate=18 May 2012}}</ref> He replaced [[Derek Jameson]] as editor.<ref name=Orr08>{{cite news|last=Orr|first=Craig|title=Daily Express: Hirings and many firings at the Black Lubyanka|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daily-express-hirings-and-many-firings-at-the-black-lubyanka-856843.html|accessdate=21 May 2012|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=30 June 2008}}</ref> Firth started his career at the ''[[Lancashire Evening Post]]'', a local daily newspaper then based on Fishergate in [[Preston, Lancashire]]. After a spell as a sub-editor on the Daily Herald in Manchester, at 32 he gained a position as a sub-editor at the ''Daily Express'' and rose to become northern editor 12 years later and deputy editor under Derek Jameson 6 years after that.<ref name=Greenslade04>{{cite book|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|title=Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda|year=2004|publisher=Pan Macmillan|location=London|isbn=9780330393768|pages=325|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPR0pB9UCS4C&pg=PA325}}</ref>

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{{Daily Express editors}} {{s-start}} {{s-media}} {{succession box| before=[[Derek Jameson]] | title=Editor of ''[[Daily Express|The Daily Express]]'' | years= 1980 - 1981 | after=[[Christopher Ward (journalist)|Christopher Ward]] }} {{s-end}}

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