Walter Taplin

Walter Taplin (1910–1986)^[1] was editor of The Spectator between 1953 and 1954.

Life

Taplin was born and educated in Southampton. He graduated at the University of Oxford and went straight into journalism. He also took the degree of Bachelor of Commerce at the University of London.^[2]

Taplin was on the staff of The Economist in 1939–40. He then worked during World War II in the Ministry of Food and Central Statistical Office. From 1946, he was on the staff of The Spectator. He also wrote much for the Information Research Department. In 1955, he had a temporary position at the BBC as a Talks Producer, then moved to the Iron and Steel Board, working as an economist to 1956. From 1957 to 1961, he was a Research Fellow of the London School of Economics, studying advertising.^[3][4][5][6] He then edited Accountancy (1961 to 1971) and Accounting and Business Research (1971 to 1975).^[7]

Bibliography

• Advertising: A New Approach (1960)^[2]
• History of the British Steel Industry (1962)^[8]

References

1. Walter Taplin (1910-1986), Author and journalist
2. John Sherman Wright; Daniel S. Warner (1963). Speaking of Advertising. McGraw-Hill. pp. 331–.
3. Susan Howson (23 April 2014). Collected Papers James Meade. Vol. 4. Routledge. p. 353. ISBN 978-1-136-55453-7.
4. Michael Bailey (12 November 2012). Narrating Media History. Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-134-11210-4.
5. AmericanRadioHistory.Com, Practical Wireless, April 1955 (PDF), at p. 10
6. John Dwight Jenks (2000). Hot News/Cold War: The British State, Propaganda, and the News Media, 1948-53. University of California, Berkeley. p. 156.
7. Holmes, Geoffrey (March 1986). "Walter Taplin". Accountancy. 97 (1111): 58.
8. James Cecil Carr; Walter Taplin (1962). History of the British Steel Industry. Harvard University Press.

Preceded by Wilson Harris	Editor of The Spectator 1953 - 1954	Succeeded by Ian Gilmour