Derek jameson biography
On Wednesday 28th November, 2012, at 11:30am a service of thanksgiving for the life of Derek Jameson, journalist and editor, was held at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street.
Introduction
The Venerable David Meara delivered the bidding:
Welcome to St Bride’s this morning. It is ironic and oddly appropriate that on the day before the report of the Leveson enquiry is published we gather here in the parish church of Fleet Street to honour a Fleet Street veteran who edited three tabloid newspapers; in his own words “the last of the hot metal men”, who had a long and distinguished career both in newspapers and then in television and radio, but who always saw himself as just an ordinary bloke. Proud of his origins in Hackney he connected instinctively with his audience in print and on the airwaves, and his programme on Radio Two grew to 10 million listeners.
Derek Jameson was a man of the people, but also a citizen of Fleet Street asking in his autobiography for his ashes to be scattered in Fleet Street, “the most exciting place on earth.”
We celebrate his life and honour his memory, here in the street he loved, and pray that he may rest in peace after a rich and full life.
Amen.
Addresses
Tim Blackmore MBE, Editorial Director, UBC Media Group
Daniel Jameson, Derek's youngest son
Reading
Peter Jameson, Derek’s eldest son,read Romans 8, 38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
BillHagerty, Chairman of The Journalists’ Charity read John 14, 1-6
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Derek Jameson, journalist and broadcaster, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews - disguised as a newspaper vendor - on Fleet Street in London after his taxi 'broke down' on his way to dinner at the El Vino wine bar.
Derek, who was born to an unmarried mother in London's East End, grew up in a boarding house in Clapton before being evacuated to Bishop's Stortford during the Second World War. He began his career in Fleet Street as a 14-year-old messenger boy at Reuters before becoming a trainee reporter in 1946. After his national service, Derek returned to Reuters as a sub-editor, then became editor of London American magazine before joining the Daily Express in 1961.
His other roles in Fleet Street included assistant editor of the Daily Mirror from 1965, then the paper's northern editor from 1972, editor of the Daily Express from 1977, editor-in-chief of the newly launched Daily Star in 1979, and editor of News of the World in 1981. After leaving Fleet Street in 1984, he moved into broadcasting, with a regular spot on ITV's TV-AM, presenting the BBC programme Do They Mean Us? and joining BBC Radio 2 the following year.
"Good lord! I don't believe it! Well, Eamonn - you got me banged to rights!"
Derek Jameson, broadcaster and editor, dies aged 82
Producer Gary Bones, who worked on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Jameson in the early 1990s, said: "Derek was not only a unique broadcaster and Fleet Street legend but also a really nice, kind and generous man who always knew exactly how to tap into the mood of the nation at the time.
"I remember nothing more demonstrated his sensitive nature than when he broke down on air during his daily review of the papers while reading a story about a child with leukaemia.
"Listeners at the time will remember his daily catch phrase, 'morning, morning, Jameson here'. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his wife Ellen."
Jameson told his story in his autobiography Touched by Angels, with a second volume Last of the Hot Metal Men chronicling the dying days of the old Fleet Street.
Much of his fame rested on his strong Cockney accent, which he regarded as unique because it contained elements of Manchester, where he worked for eight years, and wartime days as an evacuee in Hertfordshire.
He told how when he rang directory enquiries on one occasion the operator asked: "Is that Derek Jameson?"
Jameson leaves Ellen, his third wife, and four grown-up children.
Derek Jameson
Derek Jameson (29 de noviembre de 1929 - 12 de septiembre de 2012) fue un periodista sensacionalista británico y locutor.
Jameson se crio en un orfanato y de niño fue evacuado de Londres a Bishop’s Stortford, Essex en WW2. Su carrera comenzó en Fleet Street, como mensajero, antes de convertirse en jefe de redacción del periódico Daily Mirror y editor del Daily Express, Daily Star y News of the World.
Vida personal y muerte
[editar]Jameson se casó con Jackie en 1947, ella se divorció de él en la década de 1960. Se casó con Pauline en 1971. En 1978 se separó de ella por Ellen Petrie, con quien estuvo casado hasta su muerte a los 82 años de un ataque al corazón el 12 de septiembre de 2012. Le sobreviven sus tres hijos y su hija de su matrimonio anterior.