William Haley
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| 5th Director-General of the BBC | |
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| Preceded by | Robert Foot |
| Succeeded by | Ian Jacob |
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| Born | William John Haley Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Jersey |
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| Education | Victoria College, Jersey |
| Occupation | Editor and Director-General of the BBC |
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Sir William John Haley, KCMG (24 May 1901 – 6 September 1987) was a British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator.
Biography
Haley grew up on the island of Jersey and attended Victoria College. In 1918 he began to study journalism, and in 1921 he secured his first newspaper employment at The Times, eventually being stationed in Brussels.[1]
Early in his career on the Manchester Evening News, Haley was found to be too shy to work as a reporter. He was then transferred to subediting.[2] He rose through the ranks becoming director of Manchester Guardian and Evening News, Ltd after 8 years.[1]
He served as Director-General of the BBC from 1944 to 1952 and from 1952 to 1966 he was editor of The Times. At The Times he wrote a series of light-hearted bookish articles under the pseudonym 'Oliver Edwards'. These articles were published in 1957 by Heinemann as 'Talking of Books'. While at the BBC he created the BBC Third Programme, which was replaced by BBC Radio 3 in 1967.[3] He was made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1946.
He was editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica from January 1968 until resigning in April 1969 in an editorial dispute over how to adapt the work to new readers. It was reported that younger executives (including the company's president, Charles E. Swanson) wanted to introduce livelier materials, while Haley favoured the traditional approach and an expansion in size.[4]
Haley died in a nursing home in Jersey.[5]
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sir William Haley". Retrieved 6 June 2012.
- ^ Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers 2000 p.10
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Key Facts: Director-Generals". Archived from the original on 23 April 2003. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ^ Henry Raymont, "Encyclopaedia Britannica Feud Seen", New York Times, April 20, 1969
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Saxon, Wolfgang (9 September 1987). "WILLIAM J. HALEY, BRITISH JOURNALIST, DIES AT 86". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
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