Journalist who started out on the Nottingham Evening Post and went on to become the sports editor of the Observer Ronald Atkin, a former sports editor of the Observer, was a journalist of impeccably high standards, whether looking after other writers' copy or fashioning his own, usually on top-level tennis or football matches. But as a representative of an old Fleet Street newspaper community that did not take itself too seriously, he also had an ability to laugh at the foibles of his profession...
Journalist who started out on the Nottingham Evening Post and went on to become the sports editor of the Observer Ronald Atkin, a former sports editor of the Observer, was a journalist of impeccably high standards, whether looking after other writers' copy or fashioning his own, usually on top-level tennis or football matches. But as a representative of an old Fleet Street newspaper community that did not take itself too seriously, he also had an ability to laugh at the foibles of his profession...
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