Arthur Christiansen Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Arthur Christiansen (27 July 1904 – 27 September 1963) was a journalist, and editor of Lord Beaverbrook's newspaper the Daily Express from 1933 to 1957.Christiansen was born in Wallasey to Louis Niels Christiansen, a shipwright, and his wife Ellen. From an early age he demonstrated a talent for writing, producing a magazine for his grammar school. At 16, he became a reporter for the Wallasey and Wirral Chronicle, where he worked for three years before moving to the Liverpool Evening Express and the Liverpool Daily Courier. He was named the London editor of the Evening Express in 1925, a position he held for a year before moving to the Sunday Express.Christiansen made his reputation four years later, when, as assistant editor, he produced a special late-morning edition of the Sunday Express to report the R101 airship disaster.He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.In 1961. he was cast as the editor of the Daily Express in the Fleet Street-based sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Caught Fire.Christiansen's son, Michael, also became a newspaper editor.
Net Worth
$15 Million
Date Of Birth
July 27, 1904
Died
1963-09-27
Place Of Birth
Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
Occupation
Journalist, editor
Profession
Miscellaneous Crew, Actor
Work Position
Editor of The Daily Express
Spouse
Brenda Winifred
Children
Michael Christiansen ,, Antoinette B Christiansen, Andrew Christiansen, Greta J Christiansen
Nicknames
Arthur Christiansen, Christiansen, Arthur
Star Sign
Leo
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Fact
1
He collapsed and died at a television studio in Norwich, England, during rehearsal for a program he had designed in which current local news would be reported from a country pub.
2
During his life, he was described as the greatest editor in the history of London's Fleet Street. This may have been due to his exhorting his reporters: "Always, always tell the news through people." It must have been effective advice, because during his reign over The Daily Express, the paper's circulation increased from well under 2 million to well over over 4 million subscribers.
3
He played the chief editor of The Daily Express in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) a job from which he had recently retired in real life.