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Campaign launch editor, Michael Jackson, loses fight against Parkinson's aged 65.
Michael Jackson, the launch editor of Campaign, has died after a ten-year battle with Parkinson's disease, aged 65.
The man who came up with the name 'Campaign' after Haymarket bought and relaunched the World's Press News was instrumental in defining ground-breaking design and editorial standards in business publishing.
The former Haymarket chairman Lindsay Masters, who hired Jackson, said: 'When I met him, I knew immediately I had the right man, a natural news man with national press experience.'
Jackson joined WPN in 1968 from the Daily Herald, the then TUC-owned newspaper. Born in Wetherby, Yorkshire, in 1942, he attended King James's Grammar School in Almondbury. On leaving, he became a trainee on the Huddersfield Examiner, launching a lifelong journalism career.
'The effect of Michael Jackson's Campaign was both ...