Christopher Ward (journalist)

{{Short description|British writer, journalist, editor, and publisher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox person |name = Christopher John Ward |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|08|25|df=y}}<ref name=Debretts/> |awards = [[Mark Boxer]] Award (1995)<ref name=BSME>{{cite web|title=Christopher Ward, 1995|url=http://www.bsme.com/images/files/file_110.pdf#page=7|work=Mark Boxer Award - The 'Gong' for Outstanding Services to the Industry|publisher=British Society of Magazine Publishers|accessdate=21 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603050843/http://www.bsme.com/images/files/file_110.pdf#page=7|archive-date=3 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |employer = Redwood Publishing, the ''[[Daily Express]]'', the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' |occupation = Chairman of Redwood Publishing |education = [[King's College School]], Wimbledon<ref name=Greenslade04/> |website = {{URL|titanic-band.com/author.html}} }} '''Christopher Ward''' is a British author, journalist, editor, and publisher. He is also the grandson and biographer of Jock Hume, a violinist who died in the sinking of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] and one of the members of the band which continued playing while the ship sank.

==Career== Ward began his career as a journalist in 1959 working at local newspapers, the ''[[Driffield Times]]'' and the ''[[Evening Chronicle|Newcastle Evening Chronicle]]''. He then moved to national daily, the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'', in 1963 where he worked as a reporter, columnist and sub-editor before becoming assistant editor at the ''Mirror'' and its sister paper the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' in 1976. After five years in this position, Ward left the ''Mirror'' in 1981 to become editor at the ''[[Daily Express]]'', a national daily newspaper, at age 38. He remained at the ''Express'' for two years, before leaving in 1983<ref name=Debretts>{{cite web|title=Christopher Ward, Esq Authorised Biography|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/17434/Christopher%20John+WARD.aspx|work=Debrett's People of Today Online|publisher=[[Debrett's]]|accessdate=21 May 2012}}</ref> to jointly found Redwood magazine publishers with [[Christopher Curry (businessman)|Christopher Curry]] and Michael Potter.<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=402|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPR0pB9UCS4C&pg=PA402}}</ref><ref name=Campaign08>{{cite news|title=Media Lifeline: Redwood Publishing|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/analysis/864370/|accessdate=21 May 2012|newspaper=[[Campaign (magazine)|Campaign]]|date=21 November 2008}}</ref>

Between 2002 and 2008, Ward was UK chairman of the [[World Wide Fund for Nature]].<ref name=WWF>{{cite web|title=Unwavering commitment|url=http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/about_us/annual_review/annual_review_archive/annual_review_2008/our_vision_for_the_future/wwf_uk_chairman_retires2.cfm|publisher=[[World Wide Fund for Nature]]|accessdate=21 May 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224132806/http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/about_us/annual_review/annual_review_archive/annual_review_2008/our_vision_for_the_future/wwf_uk_chairman_retires2.cfm|archive-date=24 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

His book, ''And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal'' (2011), became a ''[[Sunday Times]]'' bestseller and was made into a documentary for the [[Discovery Channel]] titled, ''Titanic: The Aftermath''.<ref name=Devan12>{{cite news|last=Devan|first=Subhadra|title=That sinking feeling|url=http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/showbiz/that-sinking-feeling-1.68042|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=[[New Straits Times]]|date=30 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522060404/http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/showbiz/that-sinking-feeling-1.68042|archive-date=22 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The book details the story of Ward's grandfather, Jock Hume, a violinist who died in the sinking of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] and one of the members of the band which continued playing while the ship sank.<ref name=Ward12>{{cite news|last=Ward|first=Christopher|title=What Happened To My Grandfather After the Titanic Sank|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christopher-ward/titanic-centenary_b_1310209.html|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=[[Huffington Post]]|date=29 February 2012}}</ref><ref name=Hines11>{{cite news|last=Davenport-Hines|first=Richard|title=Book reviews: When the great ship went down|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/7174263/when-the-great-ship-went-down.thtml|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=[[The Spectator]]|date=20 August 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505071401/http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/7174263/when-the-great-ship-went-down.thtml|archive-date=5 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Books== *''How to Complain'' (1974). London: Secker and Warburg. {{ISBN|9780436561627}}. *''Our Cheque is in the Post'' (1980). South Melbourne: Macmillan. {{ISBN|9780333337196}}. *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LmAoPwJjzx0C And The Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal]'' (2011). London: Hodder and Stoughton. {{ISBN|9781444707977}}.

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{{s-start}} {{s-media}} {{succession box| before=[[Arthur Firth]] | title=Editor of ''[[Daily Express|The Daily Express]]'' | years= 1981 - 1983 | after=[[Larry Lamb (newspaper editor)|Larry Lamb]] }} {{s-end}}

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