Allan Prosser: Remembering the eternal values of good journalism

On World News Day, ALLAN PROSSER remembers the eternal values of good journalism personified by the inspirational Harold Evans, who died last week

Harold Evans: "Newsprint rationing put a premium on conciseness.” Picture: PA 

Back when I was an impressionable teenager, some time ago in the days of three-channel black and white TV, I became addicted to a scratchy programme broadcast out of Manchester and presented regularly by a Buddy Holly lookalike named Harold Evans.

What The Papers Say was a weekly reprise of the good and bad in the British Press and Evans was a laconic critic and a font of knowledge.