Arthur Christiansen was a journalist, and editor of Lord Beaverbrook

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.-Early career in Canada:...

's newspaper

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 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...

from 1933 to 1957.

Christiansen was born in Wallasey

Wallasey

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 to Louis Niels Christiansen, a shipwright

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, and his wife Ellen. From an early age he demonstrated a talent for writing, producing a magazine for his grammar school. At the age of sixteen, 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

R101

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 airship disaster.

In 1961

1961 in film

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 he was cast as the editor of the Daily Express in the Fleet Street

Fleet Street

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-based sci-fi

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 thriller The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

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Christiansen's son Michael

Michael Christiansen

Michael Christiansen was a British newspaper editor.The son of Arthur Christiansen, editor of the Daily Express, Michael followed his father into journalism. He worked first at the Daily Mail, then in 1956 became Deputy Subeditor of the Daily Mirror...

also became a newspaper editor.