About John Leese
Lived 1930 – 1991 (aged 61). John Leese was a journalist.
John Arthur Leese (4 January 1930 – 23 September 1991) 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. His son, Mike Leese, was also a news editor at the Evening Standard.
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English newspaper editor
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John Leese was born on 4 January 1930.
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John Leese died on 23 September 1991.
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John Leese was a journalist.
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