Famed British journalist and long-time editor of London’s Sunday Times, Harold Evans’ career of highlighting otherwise buried stories has been documented in his new book My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times.
Evans spoke to NPR’s Morning Edition about his career at The Sunday Times, his two decades spent in America, and his feelings on journalism today:
“I think a certain commitment to the public good has vanished in the race for circulation. I think that is accentuated when you get newspapers taken over, as you have across America, by people who either borrow extensively to buy the paper, or never had any interest in what real journalism is about in the first place.”
