{{Short description|British journalist (1913–1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Lord Cudlipp | honorific_suffix = OBE | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Hubert Kinsman Cudlipp | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|8|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cardiff]], [[Glamorgan]], Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|5|17|1913|8|28|df=y}} | death_place = [[Chichester]], [[West Sussex]], England | occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|editor|publisher}} | employer = ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' (1950s & 1960s) | known_for = Chairman, [[Trinity Mirror|Mirror Group]] (1963–1967)<br />Chairman, [[International Publishing Corporation]] (1968–1973) | title = Baron Cudlipp | education = Howard Gardens High School | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Edith Parnell]]|1936|1938|end=d}} * {{marriage|[[Eileen Ascroft]]|1945|1962|end=d}} * {{marriage|[[Joan Latimer Hyland]] |1963}} }} | children = | parents = William Christopher Cudlipp and Bessie Amelia (née Kinsman) | relatives = [[Percy Cudlipp]] (brother)<br />[[Reginald Cudlipp]] (brother) }}
'''Hubert Kinsman Cudlipp''', '''Baron Cudlipp''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (28 August 1913 – 17 May 1998), was a Welsh journalist and newspaper editor noted for his work on the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' in the 1950s and 1960s. He served as chairman of the [[Trinity Mirror|Mirror Group]] group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967, and the chairman of the [[International Publishing Corporation]] from 1968 to 1973.
== Life and career == Hugh Cudlipp was born in [[Cardiff]], the youngest of three sons of William Christopher Cudlipp, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Amelia, née Kinsman.<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008, ed. Lawrence Goldman, 2013, p. 274</ref><ref>The New York Times Biographical Service, vol. 29, New York Times, Arno Press, 1998, p. 764</ref><ref name="Griffiths">{{cite book |editor-last=Griffiths |editor-first=Dennis |title=The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992 |location=London & Basingstoke |publisher=Macmillan |year=1992 |pages=178–79}}</ref> He left the Howard Gardens High School for boys (later [[Howardian High School]]) at the age of fourteen, working for a number of short-lived local newspapers before transferring at the age of sixteen to Manchester and a job on the ''[[Manchester Evening Chronicle]]''. In 1932, aged nineteen, he moved to London to take up a position as features editor of the ''[[Sunday Chronicle]]''. In 1935, he joined the staff of the ''[[Daily Mirror]]''.<ref name="odnb"/>
He was editor of the ''[[Sunday Pictorial]]'' (later renamed the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'') from 1937 to 1940 and 1946 to 1949. Between these two periods, he saw war service with the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]], and was involved in the [[First Battle of El Alamein]].<ref name="Griffiths"/> He was head of the army newspaper unit for the Mediterranean from 1943 to 1946, and oversaw the launch of a British forces' paper, ''Union Jack'',<ref name="Griffiths"/> modelled on the US ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]''. He thereafter returned to the ''Daily Mirror'' and the ''Sunday Pictorial'' until 1949; when owing to disagreements with his then boss, Harry Guy Bartholomew, he left to take the post of managing editor of the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' for a two-year stint. By 1951, Bartholomew had left, replaced by [[Cecil Harmsworth King|Cecil King]], who reappointed Cudlipp, and with whom Cudlipp enjoyed a good working relationship for many years.<ref name="odnb"/>
In 1952, Cudlipp was made Editorial Director of the ''Sunday Pictorial'' and the ''Daily Mirror'', in the period in which the latter sustained its position as one of the best-selling of British newspapers. [[Roy Greenslade]] identifies Cudlipp as the mastermind of the paper's editorial formula, responsible for design, choice of campaigns, gimmicks, stunts, and author of iconic headlines.<ref name="Greenslade">Roy Greenslade, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/dec/08/daily-mirror-sundaymirror "Why all journalists should read Cudlipp's Publish and be Damned!"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 8 December 2009</ref>
Cudlipp was Chairman of the [[Trinity Mirror|Mirror Group]] of [[newspaper]]s from 1963 to 1967, where he oversaw the 1964 launch, as a broadsheet, of ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]''. Intended to replace the failing ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]'', the choice of format was to prevent it encroaching on ''Daily Mirror'' sales.<ref name="odnb"/> The paper was not successful and, in 1969, was sold to [[Rupert Murdoch]], who turned it into a tabloid imitator of and competitor to the ''Daily Mirror''; by 1978, it was outselling the ''Mirror''.
From 1968 to his retirement in 1973, he was Chairman of the [[International Publishing Corporation]]. His brothers [[Percy Cudlipp]] and [[Reginald Cudlipp]] were also national newspaper editors.
Cudlipp was knighted in 1973 and created '''Baron Cudlipp''', of Aldingbourne in the County of [[West Sussex]] in 1974. Initially a Labour peer, he joined the nascent [[Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990)|Social Democratic Party]] in 1981.
In 1974, director/producer [[John Goldschmidt]] made the documentary film ''Telling It Like It Is: Cudlipp's Crusade'', featuring Hugh Cudlipp about the "state of the nation", for [[Associated Television|ATV]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121024013804/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/19026 ''Telling It Like It Is: Cudlipp's Crusade''], BFI Film & TV Database</ref> The [[Independent Broadcasting Authority|IBA]]<ref>"Be Damned If You Publish", ''New Law Journal'', vol.124, No.5666, 19 September 1974, p. 853</ref> insisted that the film was withdrawn from transmission so as not to conflict with legislation on broadcasting in periods just before general elections.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121024013822/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/19026?view=transmission Transmission dates: ''Telling It Like It Is: Cudlipp's Crusade''], BFI Film & TV Database</ref> The script of the film was instead published in sections by several newspapers. The film was finally transmitted on ITV after the election.
==Personal life and death== His first wife was [[Edith Parnell]], who, in 1929, as a 16 year old schoolgirl, became the second person (and youngest person at the time) to swim across the [[Bristol Channel#Youngest person to swim across the Bristol Channel|Bristol Channel]] from [[Penarth]] to [[Weston-super-Mare]].<ref name="Wonder Girls">[http://bookoxygen.com/?p=2007 BookOxygen ''Wonder Girls'' by Catherine Jones] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606055515/http://bookoxygen.com/?p=2007 |date=6 June 2013}}</ref> They married in 1936, although the marriage was not a success as she was simultaneously in love with Tom Darlow, editor of ''[[John Bull (magazine)|John Bull]]'' and kept up an affair with him.<ref name="Edwards2013">{{cite book|author=[[Ruth Dudley Edwards]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaY45FsxAFwC&pg=PT131|title=Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4464-8563-7|pages=131–132}}</ref> She died on 13 November 1938,<ref>'Deaths', ''[[Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail]]'', 14 November 1938.</ref> aged 25, after complications from a [[Caesarean section|Caesarean]] section in a [[Harley Street]] clinic.<ref name="Edwards2013" />
His second wife, [[Eileen Ascroft]], whom he married in 1945, died in 1962.<ref name="Griffiths"/><ref name="Times1962">{{cite news |url=https://login.thetimes.com/?gotoUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.com%2Farchive%2Farticle%2F1962-04-30%2F20%2F10.html |title=Miss Eileen Ascroft |work=[[The Times]] |date=30 April 1962}} {{subscription required}}</ref> The following year, he married [[Joan Latimer Hyland]], who had been editor of the ''Woman's Mirror'' until their marriage; she died in August 2017.<ref name="Greenslade2017"/>
==Death== Cudlipp died on 17 May 1998, aged 84, at his home in [[Chichester]], [[West Sussex]]. He had been suffering from [[lung cancer]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/cudlipp-giant-of-the-tabloids-dies-1159038.html Notice of death of Hugh Cudlipp], Independent.co.uk. Accessed 3 January 2023.</ref>
== Legacy == After his death, his widow [[Jodi Hyland|Joan]] joined with former colleagues from the British press to found the Cudlipp Trust with the aim of "education and furthering the interests and standing of journalism".<ref>{{cite web |title=THE HUGH CUDLIPP TRUST :: OpenCharities |url=http://opencharities.org/charities/1108418 |website=opencharities.org |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref> The trust organises the annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture and student journalism prize.<ref name="Greenslade2017">{{cite news |last=Greenslade |first=Roy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/16/lady-cudlipp-obituary |title=Lady Cudlipp obituary |work=The Guardian |date=16 August 2017}}</ref>
Between 1999 and 2004, the lecture was given at the [[London Press Club]], then between 2005 and 2015, it was hosted at the [[London College of Communication]]. It returned to the London Press Club in 2016. Delivering the 2005 lecture, [[Michael Grade]], the then [[Chairman of the BBC]], described Cudlipp as "one of the giants of British journalism and one of its greatest editors."<ref>Michael Grade, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/grade_cudlipp.shtml Making the important interesting: BBC journalism in the 21st Century – The Cudlipp Lecture, London College of Communications], 24 January 2005</ref>
The [[British Press Awards]] gives an annual "Hugh Cudlipp Award".<ref>''[[Press Gazette]]'', [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=99&navcode=92# Roll of Honour] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616181807/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=99&navcode=92 |date=16 June 2011}}. Retrieved 24 July 2011</ref>
=== Hugh Cudlipp Lecture === The speakers for each year are as follows: {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * 1999 [[Peter Carter-Ruck]] * 2000 [[Bob Edwards (UK journalist)|Bob Edwards]] * 2001 [[Derek Jameson]] * 2002 [[Geoffrey Goodman]] * 2003 [[Piers Morgan]] * 2004 [[Felicity Green]] * 2005 [[Michael Grade]]<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – Press Office – Michael Grade Hugh Cudlipp Lecture |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/grade_cudlipp.shtml |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref> * 2006 [[Andrew Marr]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Marr to deliver Cudlipp lecture – Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage |url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2007/news/andrew-marr-to-deliver-cudlipp-lecture/ |website=HoldTheFrontPage |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref> * 2007 [[Paul Dacre]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Mail editor slams 'Orwellian' BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6289751.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2007-01-23 |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref> * 2008 [[Alastair Campbell]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Alastair Campbell: The Cudlipp Lecture |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/alastair-campbell-the-cudlipp-lecture-775278.html |website=[[The Independent]] |access-date=2015-10-22 |date=29 January 2008}}</ref> * 2009 [[Rebekah Brooks|Rebekah Wade]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Cudlipp lecture: Sun editor Rebekah Wade's full speech {{!}} Press Gazette |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/42927 |website=www.pressgazette.co.uk |access-date=2015-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326105537/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/42927 |archive-date=26 March 2015}}</ref> * 2010 [[Alan Rusbridger]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Video: Alan Rusbridger on the future of digital media |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2010/jan/25/alan-rusbridger-hugh-cudlipp |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2015-10-22 |first1=Alan |last1=Rusbridger |first2=Matt |last2=Wells |first3=y |last3=Gallagher |date=25 January 2010}}</ref> * 2011 [[Lionel Barber]]<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvx0JjV06A8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315205916/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvx0JjV06A8 |archive-date=2016-03-15 |url-status=dead|access-date=2015-10-22|title=Lionel Barber : Annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture 2011 : London College of Communication}}</ref> * 2012 [[Jon Snow (journalist)|Jon Snow]]<ref>{{citation |title=Jon Snow : Annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture 2012 : London College of Communication |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAzs7sMGoE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/NDAzs7sMGoE |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2015-10-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2013 Sir [[Harold Evans]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Harry Evans : Annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture 2013 : London College of Communication|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/sir-harold-evans-2013-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-full-written-version |website=www.pressgazette.co.uk |access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Sir Harry Evans: Annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture 2013: London College of Communication|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgWRN7FIGU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/aUgWRN7FIGU |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2015-10-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2014 [[David Walsh (journalist)|David Walsh]]<ref>{{cite web |title=David Walsh on Lance Armstrong: My battle for truth about his doping was worth it |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/david-walsh-lance-armstrong-battle-3068483 |website=mirror |access-date=2015-10-22 |date=28 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=London College of Communication's Annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqmAxLQz6k |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310131027/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqmAxLQz6k |archive-date=2016-03-10 |url-status=dead|access-date=2015-10-22}}</ref> * 2015 [[Emily Bell]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugh Cudlipp Lecture: Students scoop journalism award with Scots Independence referendum video |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hugh-cudlipp-lecture-students-scoop-5095874 |website=mirror |access-date=2015-10-22 |date=3 February 2015}}</ref> * 2016 [[Kevin Maguire (journalist)|Kevin Maguire]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Kevin Maguire to give the Hugh Cudlipp Lecture in 2016 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kevin-maguire-give-hugh-cudlipp-7012292 |website=mirror |access-date=2016-01-19 |date=15 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kevin Maguire to deliver Hugh Cudlipp lecture in its new home |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/dec/15/kevin-maguire-to-deliver-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-in-its-new-home |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2015-12-15 |access-date=2016-01-19 |issn=0261-3077 |first=Roy |last=Greenslade}}</ref> * 2017 [[James Naughtie]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/james-naughtie-delivers-cudlipp-lecture-10125413 |title=Trump waging 'culture war' on the free press: James Naughtie's Cudlipp Lecture |last=Bartlett |first=Nicola |date=30 March 2017 |work=mirror}}</ref> * 2018 [[James Harding (journalist)|James Harding]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Harding |first=James |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/22/james-hardings-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-in-full |title=James Harding's Hugh Cudlipp lecture in full |work=The Guardian |date=22 March 2018}}</ref> * 2019 [[George Osborne]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Osborne |first1=George |title=The Politics of Newspapers |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/george-osbornes-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-the-politics-of-newspapers-a4085671.html |work=London Evening Standard|date=8 March 2019 |access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref> * 2020 [[Robert Peston]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Peston |first1=Robert |title=How to Save Impartial Journalism |url=https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2019/november/robert-peston-to-give-2020-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-at-city |website=city.ac.uk |publisher=[[City University London]] |access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref> * 2022 [[Roula Khalaf]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/ft-editor-roula-khalaf-to-deliver-2022-hugh-cudlipp-lecture-20704|title=FT editor Roula Khalaf to deliver 2022 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture|website=www.inpublishing.co.uk|publisher=InPublishing|access-date=20 August 2024}}</ref> {{div col end}}
== Publications by Cudlipp == * ''Publish and be Damned: The Astonishing Story of the "Daily Mirror"'' (1953) * ''At Your Peril: A mid-century view of the exciting changes of the Press in Britain, and a press view of the exciting changes of mid-century'' (1962) * ''Cassandra at his Finest and Funniest'' (1967) - A collection of articles by the Mirror columnnist Cassandra ([[William Connor]])<ref>[https://app.koofr.net/links/5d103a0a-8da0-4a56-8899-a5a84ff26a21 Hugh Cudlipp, Paul Boyle: Cassandra At His Finest and Funniest]</ref> * ''Walking on the Water'' (1976) – an autobiography * ''The Prerogative of the Harlot: Press Barons and Power'' (1980) – about [[William Randolph Hearst]], [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Baron Northcliffe|Northcliffe]], [[Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Rothermere the First]], [[Henry Robinson Luce]] and [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Beaverbrook]] * ''Cudlipp and be Damned! A 'British Journalism Review' collection of writing by Hugh Cudlipp to celebrate the centenary of the 'Daily Mirror' on 2 November 2003'' (2003) – posthumous
The ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' remarks that ''Publish and be Damned'' and ''At Your Peril'' were rumoured to be [[Ghostwriter|ghosted]] works.<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB |last=Howard |first=Anthony |editor1-first=Anthony |editor1-last=Howard |title=Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman (Hugh), Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998), journalist and publishing executive |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/69790 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69790 |year=2004|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * The [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/special-collections/explore/collection/hugh-cudlipp Hugh Cudlipp archive] is housed at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University.
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