Roger Wood (4 October 1925 – 2 November 2012) was the editor of theDaily Express andNew York Post.
Wood was born inAntwerp, Belgium, and spoke no English until he was seven when he moved with his family to Great Britain. He served in theRoyal Air Force inWorld War II. He graduated fromOxford University.[1]
In 1962, aged 37, he became the youngest editor of theDaily Express, succeedingEdward Pickering, editor while Edwards was deputy editor, Wood was both preceded and succeeded byBob Edwards.[2]
In 1975, he began working forRupert Murdoch and edited the weeklyStar Magazine until his move toThe New York Post. In 1977, he became executive editor of the Post, succeeding Edwin Bolwell, six months after Murdoch bought the paper. Under Wood, circulation increased from 400,000 to over a million.[1]
The paper's "Page Six" grew in popularity for celebrity gossip. Some of the newspapers most famous headlines occurred on his watch including "Headless Body in Topless Bar" (about a murder inQueens, New York); "Eleven Dead and the Band Played On" (about a fatal stampede at aThe Who concert inCincinnati, Ohio, and "Granny Executed in Her Pink Pajamas". Wood was noted for calling men "dear boy," and women "lovely one". After leaving the Post in 1986 he was editorial director for newspapers for Murdoch'sNews Corporation.[3]
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Roger Wood died of cancer on 2 November 2012, aged 87, in New York City. He was survived by his wife, son and brother.
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