Charles Arthur Brittenden (born 23 October 1924) is a former newspaper editor in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Brittenden worked as a journalist at the Yorkshire Evening Post

Yorkshire Evening Post

The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

, then rose to become Assistant Editor of the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

by the early 1960s. In 1966, he moved to become Editor of the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

. He held the post until 1971, when the paper merged with the Daily Sketch

Daily Sketch

The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper,...

, and he was replaced by Sketch editor David English.

Brittenden later moved to News International

News International

News International Ltd is the United Kingdom newspaper publishing division of News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc....

, and from 1981 to 1987, he served as its Director of Corporate Relations.