Paul Stanley Lester Callan was a British journalist and editor.
11 Facts About Paul Callan
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Paul Callan was known for his flamboyant manner and distinctive attire.
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Paul Callan attended the independent Cranbrook School in Ilford, then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music, seeing prospects of a career as a cellist.
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Paul Callan reached prominence as editor of the Londoner's Diary in the Evening Standard in the 1960s, and then with a Daily Mail diary column.
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Paul Callan achieved a succession of scoops, and was responsible for training up a generation of young journalists, including the gossip columnist, Nigel Dempster.
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Paul Callan is credited with the shortest interview ever published.
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In parallel with David Frost's approach to television, Paul Callan developed a technique known as "news colour" in which a hard news story is reported in a feature style.
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Paul Callan was a contributor to the What the Papers Say television programme.
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Paul Callan was known for his acerbic book reviews despite being described by the critic Clive James as "having the literary sensibilities of a vampire bat".
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Paul Callan married New York journalist Steffi Fields in 1973, who moved over from being London correspondent of the fashion bible Women's Wear Daily to the position of news editor of the London bureau of the NBC television network.
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Paul Callan died on 22 November 2020, due to a fall, at the age of 81.