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Robert Edwards (1925- ) is a British journalist.

Edwards was editor of Tribune (1951-54), a feature writer on the Evening Standard (1954-57), deputy editor of the Sunday Express (1957-59), managing editor of the Daily Express (1959-61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen (1962-63), editor of the Daily Express again (1963-65), editor of the Sunday People (1966-72) and editor of the Sunday Mirror (1972-84). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988.

Edwards published an autobiography in 1988, Goodbye Fleet Street.

Media offices
Preceded by Michael Foot and Evelyn Anderson	Editor of Tribune 1952–1955	Succeeded by Michael Foot
Preceded by Edward Pickering	Acting Editor of the Daily Express 1961	Succeeded by Roger Wood
Preceded by Roger Wood	Editor of the Daily Express 1963–1965	Succeeded by Derek Marks
Preceded by Sam Campbell	Editor of the Sunday People 1966–1972	Succeeded by Geoffrey Pinnington
Preceded by Michael Christiansen	Editor of the Sunday Mirror 1972–1984	Succeeded by Peter Thompson

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