Ken Owen (journalist)

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Kenneth Owen (21 February 1935 – 19 March 2015) was a South African journalist and editor of The Sunday Times.[1][2][3]

Owen was editor of The Sunday Times from 1990 to 1996, and transformed it "from a white-read, sensationalist rag to a well-respected newspaper with a majority black readership".[1] In their obituary, the UK's The Independent called Owen "one of the giants of apartheid-era journalism".[1]

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