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already in Califomia. "I'm too young to spend much time looking back right now. The new world beckons."
ARMSTRONG, 32, decided to qllìt Tatler
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KongTatler. Fallander, 32, winner of two Australian national awards forphotographers, has been the pictorial editor of the Standard for the past
months. Moving in June last year to head a three-man photo depafiment, his first concem was to build up a good team and help it gain 15
respect
in its own
work in the
according to qualifications and experience as cadet photog-
raphers, photographers, senior photographers, chiefphotographe¡ deputy pictorial editor and pictorial editor.
His success as pictorial editorand ateam leader has beenevident in the pagesofthe Standard for more than a year. Photographers, says Fallandel are now "an integral part of the newsroom; they fight for space for their pictures the same way reporters and editors make their pitch for space; and, they are happy". Why, then, is he leaving? The reason is a mixture of achievement and disappoint ment. Says Fallander: initially set out to do
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have achieved what I the photo department is well established, photographers have developed their talents, strengthened their confidenceand haveeamed the recognition they deserve." The outcome of these achievements, according to Fallander, is that the pictorial editor's position has become more air administrative post. That, he says, doesn't suit him. "I'm basically a photographer. I want to be on the action front with my mates." The timing of his departure, Fallander admits, is, perhaps, a little disappointing because the Standard's new office at Kowloon
Bay has state-of-the-art darkroom facility. Another factor is,
in
the 15 months he has been
with the newspaper, Fallander has seen
a
large tumover of editorial staff. He was inter-
viewed inearly 1987 andhiredbyeditor-inchief and general manager, Robert Chow,
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It was from Hong Kong that he directed news coverage of the Vietnam war. He returned to the United States in 1973 and retired
who should have the final say over editorial matters, and "I couldn't accept the fact that as editor I did not have the final say,"Armstrong says.
Tatler,he points out, has been a moneymaking machine for a long time. But in the nearly three years he has been with the glossy
magazine, he says, he has also made it a better editorial product, and it still continues to make a lot of money. "But, unfortunately,
it any further...to
Meanwhile, Mohindar's reaction toArmstrong's problems with Ross, according to Armstrong, has always been: "Sympathetic and positive but, in the long run, not overly effective." The projects which Armstrong hopes to do as
joint ventures with Mohindar include two
books which Armstrong will produce through
his own company. "Apart from these ventures, I will bedeveloping my ownbusiness line. I am interested in anything involved with publishing," he says. Armstrong started his joumalism career as a trainee newspaper photographer in the UK in 1973, and subsequently worked on weekly and evening papers in Kent and on Tyneside. He later joined British Railway's hovercraft operations as its liaison and PR man based in Dover. In those days he made a lotof tripsacross theEnglish Channel. Says Armstrong: "Hovercrafts need a minimum they called it number of crew for sailing flyittg. And everynow and then when someonereportedsick,I hopped in as asubstitute. And, I've never been sea-sick in my life," he laughs.
Leaving British Rail he moved to Hong Kong and joined Eurasia Publications and thenmovedtoAsian Finance Publications as editor of Young Execul¡ve, now known
as Executive, for three years. Afterwards, he joined the Tatler.
l-3 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong
last year.
He dicd at his home in suburban Washington, He
of
higher planes of editorial quality." While it is this untenable situation that has forced him to quit, Armstrong says he has had no problems with Publisher Mahabir Mohindar. "Vy'e get along fine and we will be doing some projects together in the future," he explains.
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because, he says, of interference in editorial matters from advertising boss Lina Ross.
Essentially
in Rome, Vi-
enna and Frankfurt he came to work in Hong
Now, joining that outflow himself, Fallander is going to "tackle the nasty world of freelancing" based in Hong Kong.
ALSO moving on are Marc Fallander of the
assignments
come and go," he says.
Spackman, who remarried last year, said he will be catching up with his wife who is
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but before he started work Chow had been replaced by Alan Armsden. "I've also seen four features editors and so ma¡y other people
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worked for some publications for the elderly.
Gilmore who once worked in Hong Kong as Asia editor
his brother summed it up best at Danny's funeral
Says
when he said,'Danny had
tional.
a happy life. All he ever wanted to be was a re-
According to UPI genMichael Keats, who knew Gilmore
well in Europe, even after he retired at age 65 Gilmore
\das still a reporter.
He
take a drink on a hot day at
the FCC. In the photo above Gilmore is seen in
Keats: "I think
for United Press Interna-
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VETERAN journalists in Hong Kong were saddened at the recent death of Daniel
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one of his more serious attending a moments
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in
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back in the '60s. The youthful looking bloke with his eyes shut, lost in the beauty of it all, is the current UPI
porter.'And he was." Daniel Gilmore joined the âgency was then known,
United Press, as
vice president for Asia and former FCC president, Mi-
in NewYork in 1941. After
chael Keats.
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