Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSir Harold Evans, a hard-charging British-American journalist and editor, died Wednesday at the age of 92.
The cause was congestive heart failure.Evans and his wife, Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown, were at the epicenter of Manhattan media and literary circles for decades, injecting a trans-Atlantic mixture of brains and brashness into parties and salons.
And though Brown’s star eclipsed that of her husband during the magazine heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, Evans is credited with upending Fleet Street’s approach to journalism before decamping for America with his wife.
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