# Arthur Firth

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**Arthur Firth** was an editor of the *[Daily Express](/source/Daily_Express)* between June 1980 and October 1981.[1] He replaced [Derek Jameson](/source/Derek_Jameson) as editor.[2] Firth started his career at the *[Lancashire Evening Post](/source/Lancashire_Evening_Post)*, a local daily newspaper then based on Fishergate in [Preston, Lancashire](/source/Preston%2C_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.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Editors of the Daily Express"](http://web.me.com/alimcintyre/Daily_Drone/Editors.html). *The Drone*. Retrieved 18 May 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Orr08_2-0)** Orr, Craig (30 June 2008). ["Daily Express: Hirings and many firings at the Black Lubyanka"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daily-express-hirings-and-many-firings-at-the-black-lubyanka-856843.html). *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*. Retrieved 21 May 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Greenslade04_3-0)** Greenslade, Roy (2004). [*Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KPR0pB9UCS4C&pg=PA325). London: Pan Macmillan. p. 325. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780330393768](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780330393768).

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