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Paul Bach (born Paul George Roger Bach on 13 November 1938 in Forest Gate in London – died on 18 September 2011) was a regional press journalist and editor, at one time the editor-in-chief of the Celtic Press group and group editor of the Stratford Express series of newspapers, and the founder-editor of Saga Magazine which, under Bach's editorship, became for a time Britain's largest-circulation monthly magazine. ==Working life== Straight from leaving school Bach went into journalism, working as a reporter on a local weekly newspaper. He went on to work for several local or regional newspapers in various parts of England and Wales, editing many. While working as the News Editor at the Merthyr Express the newspaper won the Hannen Swaffer award in 1967 for its coverage of the Aberfan disaster of 1966.〔 In 1979 Bach began working for then family-owned Saga Holidays, joining the company as editor of Saga News. He transformed it into the monthly Saga Magazine, launched in 1984,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Not just for greybeards )〕 and as the founder-editor he grew that within a decade into the biggest-selling monthly magazine in Britain, overtaking Reader's Digest, as the circulation grew to 1.25 million. Bach described the magazine as general interest rather than "grey". Under his leadership, major political figures like Lord Carrington, Margaret Thatcher, Mo Mowlam and former US Senator George Mitchell were interviewed for the magazine, and Her Majesty The Queen invited it on a royal away-day. Leading writers such as Paul Lewis, Michael Parkinson, Clement Freud and Keith Waterhouse provided contributions, and celebrities such as Raquel Welch, Sir Cliff Richard, Sting, Twiggy, Pierce Brosnan, Anita Roddick, Kevin Keegan,〔Goldie Hawn and (controversially) Mick Jagger appeared on the cover. Under Bach the magazine was among the first to campaign for the preservation of the English village, calling on the UK government to stop the closure of rural banks and post offices. In 2001 Bach co-edited My Story 1: Memoirs of Everyday Life from the Readers of Saga Magazine and My Story 2: Further Memoirs of the 20th Century from the Readers of Saga Magazine. Bach edited Saga Magazine until retiring in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Bach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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