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Byline: James Campbell Eddie Linden, who has died aged 88, was the editor of the poetry magazine Aquarius, the author of two books of poems, and the subject of a [...]

Byline: Paul Brown John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor for 27 years, thought his greatest achievement was the Gumbi education fund, set up after he wrote a moving piece in [...]

Byline: Veronica Horwell Willie Landels, who has died aged 94, had been at the London office of the supreme ad agency J Walter Thompson for years, art directing smooth, cool [...]

Byline: Matthew Weaver Ian Black, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, has died aged 69. He had a rare neurological disease. Black, who was also a former diplomatic and European [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Eamonn McCabe, one of the most celebrated and admired newspaper photographers and picture editors of his generation, has died aged 74. McCabe was a multi-award-winning sports photographer [...]

Byline: Stephen Bates John Wilkins, who has died aged 85, was the leading secular British Roman Catholic commentator of the last 40 years. As editor of the weekly Catholic magazine [...]

Byline: Sian Cain André Leon Talley, the influential fashion journalist and former editor-at-large of US Vogue under Anna Wintour, has died at the age of 73. TMZ reported that Talley [...]

Byline: Caroline Davies A memorial service to celebrate the life of Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian, is to be held at St Bride's church in London's Fleet Street. [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw This has been a very sombre week, with the deaths of many greatly loved and admired critics and public intellectuals: the loss of Lisa Jardine and David [...]

Byline: Catherine Shoard Penelope Houston, who edited the British Film Institute's cinema magazine Sight & Sound for 35 years, has died at the age of 88. Related: CA Lejeune: the [...]

Byline: Sue MacGregor Sandra Chalmers, who has died aged 74, was a warm wind of refreshing change when she arrived in 1983 at Broadcasting House in London as the new [...]

Byline: Yves Fremion and Paul Gravett The humorist Stephane Charbonnier, whose cartoons were signed Charb, died at the age of 47 in the attack last week on the offices in [...]

Byline: Dennis Barker and Anthony Howard John Freeman, who has died aged 99, was a human chameleon: he took up and discarded one impressive career after another. He was by [...]

Byline: John Richard Samuel, journalist, born 28 July 1928; died 19 November 2014 John Samuel, who has died aged 86, was the Guardian's brilliant, eccentric and under-appreciated sports editor for [...]

Byline: Martin Wainwright and David Ward John Course, who has died aged 86, was a mainstay of the Guardian during the most difficult years of its transition from Manchester to [...]

Byline: Christopher Reed As the brilliant editor who steered the Washington Post's history-making exposure of the Watergate presidential scandal, Ben Bradlee, who has died aged 93, became the most lauded [...]

Byline: John Sutherland The enduring reputation of Karl Miller, who has died aged 83, will be as the greatest literary editor of his time, and one of the greatest ever. [...]

Byline: Tim Radford Nigel Calder, who has died aged 82, became one of Britain's most distinguished science writers during decades of almost explosive advance in all fields of global science. [...]

Byline: Dave Laing The late 1960s and the 70s saw a sea change in media coverage of popular culture, especially cinema and music. Film reviewers and pop journalists were joined [...]

Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Beatrix Miller, longtime editor of British Vogue, who has died aged 90, kept her Rothmans in a slightly battered gold case to the right of the [...]

Byline: Cal McCrystal Ron Hall, a top executive of the Sunday Times in its pre-Murdoch golden era, has died aged 79. Hall's distinctions were many: first editor of the paper's [...]

Byline: Matthew Sturgis Annabel Freyberg was a gifted writer and editor with a rare sense of style, who was arts editor of the London Evening Standard from 1999 until 2002 [...]

Byline: Roy Greenslade Brian Hitchen, who has died aged 77, along with his wife, Nelli, after being struck by a car in Spain, was one of old Fleet Street's great [...]

Byline: Philippa Braidwood Arline Usden, who has died aged 75, was a magazine editor, journalist and author of books on health, beauty, diet and exercise. She will be remembered for [...]

Byline: James Lewis Harry Whewell, who has died aged 90, was a long-serving news editor of the Guardian - and previously of the Manchester Guardian. He was one of a [...]

Byline: Stephen Bates William Rees-Mogg, who has died of oesophageal cancer aged 84, was the editor of the Times during one of the most turbulent periods of its history, and [...]

Byline: Dennis Barker The story goes that when the working-class Derek Jameson, who has died aged 82, was the newly installed editor of the Daily Express in 1977, the paper's [...]

Byline: Veronica Horwell Helen Gurley Brown's bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl in 1962 made public (and also, perhaps, made possible) a major change in American mores: the admissibility [...]

Byline: Sali Hughes Helen Gurley Brown, creator of the Cosmopolitan magazine brand as we know it, died in Manhattan on Monday. To many, she is the founding mother of women's [...]

Byline: Bob Chaundy Colin McIntyre, who has died aged 85, was the first editor of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax. When BBC engineers invented a system whereby text could be [...]

Byline: Ian Aitken Few Fleet Street journalists could claim to have edited quite as many newspapers as Bob Edwards, who has died aged 86. Beginning with his school newspaper, which [...]

Byline: Brian Boyd Dmitri Nabokov, who has died aged 77, was the only child of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, and became his translator and editor, and keeper of the flame [...]

Byline: Martin Buckley William Boddy, who has died aged 98, was the editor of Motor Sport magazine from 1936 to 1991. His career spanned 81 years in total; he wrote [...]

Byline: James Campbell George Solomos, who has died aged 85, was the co-founder and editor - under his pen name, Themistocles Hoetis - of the magazine Zero, the first English-language [...]

Byline: Derek Schofield At the 1964 Newport folk festival in the US, a year before he controversially went on stage with an electric band, Bob Dylan turned away from his [...]

Byline: Simon Winchester The editor Larry Ashmead, who has died aged 78, was by his own admission an exceptionally pretty schoolboy when, in the mid-1930s, his aunt brought him down [...]

Byline: Duncan Campbell Brian Hilliard, who has died of a heart attack aged 80, was a police officer who transformed himself into a successful campaigning journalist and author. As the [...]

Byline: Christopher Ricks The achievements of Stephen Wall, who has died after a lung infection aged 79, were exceptional for their humane generosity. As a literary historian and a critic [...]

Byline: Dennis Barker The radio journalist and executive Wyn Knowles, who has died of pneumonia aged 86, had two particular distinctions in her long service with the BBC, which started [...]

Byline: Christopher Reed Dede Allen, who has died after a stroke aged 86, not only broke into the predominantly male preserve of film editing, but developed a style and made [...]

Byline: Robert Chesshyre Robert Hargreaves, who has died aged 77, was a pivotal member of the talented team of television journalists who launched ITN's News at Ten in 1967. Hargreaves [...]

Byline: Andrew Todd Barbara Bray, who has died aged 85, was one of the most significant links between British and French literature in the 20th century. She was the principal [...]

Byline: Godfrey Hodgson Irving Kristol, who has died aged 89, is regarded as the founder and principal champion of 'neoconservatism' in the US, the new conservatism of those, formerly more [...]

Byline: Bernard Dixon Sir John Maddox, who has died aged 83, was a formidable editor of Nature, for two terms, 1966-73 and 1980-95; a cogent and felicitous writer; and a [...]

Byline: Anthony Hayward and Anthony Hayward When he became editor of Thames Television's current affairs slot TV Eye in 1978, the producer Mike Townson, who has died aged 70, hit [...]

Byline: Patrick Gale and Rose Tremain Patricia Parkin, who has died aged 64 of cancer, represented an endangered species: a fiction editor without ambition. As modest as she was intelligent, [...]

Byline: Kathy Burke I first met the television producer Catherine Wearing, who has died in Grenada aged 41, in the mid-1990s, when we worked together on the Billy Ivory series [...]