Charles Vere Wintour, British journalist and editor who, while at the helm of London’s Evening Standard (1959–76 and 1978–80), turned the struggling tabloid into one of the nation’s most highly respected evening newspapers; Wintour was made M.B.E.
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In this period, he had five children of whom Anna and Patrick became prominent journalists. Wintour was reshaping a surrogate national paper. Wintour was 62, though, and it could be no more than a holding appointment. This wasn't the usual evening brew of bits and pieces taken on the run. Later in 1981, Wintour launched the Sunday Express Magazine with his new wife Audrey Slaughter, and they launched Working Woman magazine in 1984. It was already the paper with the most educated and influential readership. During the war, Wintour got married to Eleanor “Nonie” Trego Baker in 1940 and later got divorced in 1979. Wintour was managing director of the Daily Express at the time, turning it tabloid, but Matthews looked to him instinctively. The Evening Standard today still reflects the changes he engineered. Charles Wintour finally retired in 1989 and spent his later years supporting the Liberal Democrats and chairing the regional National Art Collections Fund. By Managing Director Allegiance Insure Ltd. Apr 2015 – Present 5 years 3 months. The Harmsworth empire - long before the revival of the Daily Mail - had lost its flair and, in particular, lacked the upmarket readers who could bring it advertising to match its sales.
There was a brutal takeover fight which, for a time, the Standard survived: but Simon Jenkins was one of its casualties. A British newspaper editor, Charles Wintour born as Charles Vere Wintour on 18 May 1917, son of Alice Jane Blanche Foster and Major – General Fitzgerald Wintour was born in Pamphill Manor, Wimborne, Dorset, England.During the war, Wintour got married to Eleanor “Nonie” Trego Baker in 1940, while he was still a soldier, later due no proper understand between the couple the two later got divorced in 1979.
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In 1980 the Standard and the News were finally merged. in 1945 and elevated to C.B.E. Soon after, Anna landed a job at Harper’s Bazaar as an editorial assistant. He held directorships and management roles for a time - and, in the early 1980s, devised and produced the Sunday Express colour magazine.
Get push notifications with news, features and more. Charles Vere Wintour, CBE, MBE (Mil) (18 May 1917 – 4 November 1999), was a British newspaper editor and was the father of editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour. She then began to take fashion classes but soon dropped out realizing design was not her forté. But there was a separate purpose to his peacetime life. Parents Eight years later, he was its deputy editor, and then, after a brief spell on the Daily Express, its editor.
He was a kind, publicly quiet and courtly man with a sharp pen and a sharper private tongue. More than that, traffic congestion in London was mounting, making speed of distribution ever harder; the flight to the suburbs was well under way; and working people, through the day, were beginning to get their headline news from radio and television.
Anna Wintour's son Charles Shaffer and his wife Lizzy welcomed a daughter on Tuesday By Nicole Sands.