John Leese

John Arthur Leese (4 January 1930 – 23 September 1991)^[1] was a British newspaper editor.

Biography

John Leese studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. He edited the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the mid-1960s, then moved to London to work on the Evening News. The paper closed in 1980, and Leese moved to New York City and produced the SoHo Weekly News for a year.

He returned to the UK to launch You magazine for the Mail on Sunday, then in 1986 became Editor of the Evening Standard. He resigned early in 1991 due to illness, and died in September of that year.^[2] His son, Mike Leese, was also a news editor at the Evening Standard.^[3]

References

1. "John Leese". The Times. London, England. 24 September 1991. p. 18.
2. Johnson, Paul (27 October 2002). "How the Mail was delivered". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
3. Morgan, Jean (6 February 2002). "New Standard editor starts minus key man". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

Media offices
Preceded by Louis Kirby	Editor of the Evening Standard 1986–1991	Succeeded by Paul Dacre