Frank Devine

Frank Devine (17 December 1931 – 3 July 2009) was a New Zealand–born Australian newspaper editor and journalist. Devine was born in the South Island city of Blenheim and started his career there aged 17 as a cadet on the ''Marlborough Express''. In 1953, Devine worked for West Australian Newspapers in Perth, contributing to the ''Western Mail''. He later worked as a foreign correspondent in New York, London and Tokyo before returning to Perth as editor of the ''Weekend News'' in 1970. In 1971, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Australian ''Reader's Digest''. After ten years, he transferred to a senior editorial position at the ''Digest'' in New York.

Remaining in the United States, Devine was appointed editor at the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' by Rupert Murdoch. In 1986, he left Chicago to take on the role of editor at the ''New York Post''. In later life, Devine was a columnist and editor of ''The Australian''. He contributed a monthly column for ''Quadrant'' from 2002 to 2009; he prepared a collection of these columns, ''Older and Wiser'', just before he died.

He married Jacqueline Magee in April 1959, with whom he had three children. The eldest, Miranda Devine, has been a columnist for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and the ''Daily Telegraph''. Provided by Wikipedia