Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
The Sun News-Pictorial longest running column was "A Place in the Sun", originally written by Keith Dunstan—founder of the Anti-Football League—and later Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone. The award-winning cartoonist Geoff "Jeff" Hook became the full-time cartoonist for "The Sun News-Pictorial" in 1964. Keith Murdoch became editor-in-chief of "The Herald" in January 1921. When the proprietor of the "Sydney Sun" tried to break into the Melbourne market in 1922 with the launch of "The Evening Sun" and "The Sun News-Pictorial", Murdoch fought a long campaign which eventually resulted in The Herald and Weekly Times, with the circulation of "The Herald" up by 50%, taking over