Robin Esser

Robin Charles Esser (born 1935) is a British newspaper executive and former editor.

After doing National Service and studying at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he edited the Cherwell newspaper, Esser began his career as a reporter with the Daily Express and Daily Sketch in 1957. He edited the Express' "Hickey" column, and gave both Nigel Dempster and Paul Dacre their first jobs on a national newspaper. By 1969, he was the newspaper's New York editor, and was the first British journalist to interview the Apollo 11 astronauts. He later became consultant editor of the London Evening News, before in 1985 returning to the Daily Express. In 1986, he became editor of the Sunday Express,^[1] a post he held until 1989. A great supporter and friend of Margaret Thatcher, Esser was due to receive a Knighthood in 1990 but declined the honour on the grounds that it was not appropriate for a serving editor to accept it.

Esser moved to the Daily Mail in 1991, where he introduced an arts and entertainment supplement, published on Fridays. He subsequently became the paper's Executive Managing Editor, with special responsibility for its website.^[1] He is an active member of the Society of Editors, for which he currently chairs the Parliamentary & Legal Committee,^[2] and the Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust.

He has written three books, The Hot Potato (1969),^[3] The Paper Chase (1971) and Crusaders In Chains (2015).

He is married and has six children.

References

Express newspapers

Daily Express editors	1900: Arthur Pearson 1901: Fletcher Robinson 1909: R. D. Blumenfeld 1929: Beverley Baxter 1933: Arthur Christiansen 1957: Edward Pickering 1961: Bob Edwards 1962: Roger Wood 1963: Bob Edwards 1965: Derek Marks 1971: Ian McColl 1974: Alastair Burnet 1976: Roy Wright 1977: Derek Jameson 1980: Arthur Firth 1981: Christopher Ward 1983: Larry Lamb 1986: Nicholas Lloyd 1995: Richard Addis 1998: Rosie Boycott 2001: Chris Williams 2003: Peter Hill 2011: Hugh Whittow

Sunday Express editors	1920: James Douglas 1928: James Douglas and John Gordon 1931: John Gordon 1952: Harold Keeble 1954: John Junor 1986: Robin Esser 1989: Robin Morgan 1991: Eve Pollard 1994: Brian Hitchen 1995: Sue Douglas 1996: Richard Addis 1998: Amanda Platell 1999: Michael Pilgrim 2001: Martin Townsend

Other topics	Daily Express Building, London Daily Express Building, Manchester Northern & Shell Richard Desmond Rupert Bear Sunday Express Dunblane controversy The Sunday Express Book of the Year

Media offices
Preceded by John Junor	Editor of the Sunday Express 1986–1989	Succeeded by Robin Morgan

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