One of the Old Codgers
PETER REED, for many years one of the Daily Mirror’s famous Old Codgers, has died at 85 after 60 years of NUJ membership. Peter spent almost his entire career within the Mirror fold, starting before the war as office boy to William Connor, the great columnist Cassandra.
After war service he returned to Fleet Street, working successively on Junior Mirror and Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where he became production editor. In 1964, he rejoined the Daily Mirror as editor of the Live Letters column dealing with a mailbag of thousands a day.
Tony Hoskins