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| | Guardian | Eric Jacobs |
 | | After reading English at Pembroke College, Oxford, he joined the Glasgow Herald as a trainee leaderwriter, then went briefly to the Guardian, to Whitehall as a press officer, and, eventually, to the Sunday Times, where he became chairman of the journalists' union chapel. |
 | | He left before Rupert Murdoch's midnight flit to Wapping, and joined Eddie Shah's shortlived tabloid, Today, as a leaderwriter. |
 | | In the end, however, Murdoch gobbled up Shah's admirable but innocent newspaper, and closed it down. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4616724-103684,00.html (690 words) |
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