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.
Bibliography
Books
- Devine, Frank (2009). Older and wiser : essays by Frank Devine 2002-2009. Balmain, NSW: Quadrant Books.
Articles
- Devine, Frank (July–August 2003). "Ranting and raving about America". Quadrant. 47 (7–8 [398]): 60–62.
References
External links
- David Banks, Beloved mentor and mate skips the Ashes Archived 13 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Australian, 11 July 2009.
- Peter Coleman, 'My Friend Frank'
- Christopher Pearson, Frank conviviality of a Devine fellow soul Archived 14 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Australian, 11 July 2009.
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