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Clifton Daniel

American newspaperman (1912–2000)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2025
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Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. was an American newspaperman who was the managing editor of The New York Times from 1964 to 1969. Before assuming the top editorial job at the paper, he served as the paper's London and Moscow bureau chief.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clifton Daniel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.