Frank Devine

 ( 1931 Births ) 

Frank Devine (17 December 1931 – 3 July 2009) was a New Zealand–born editing 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. Libel over restaurant The Canberra Times, 1 August 1970, at Trove 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. Digest editors The Canberra Times, 4 April 1981, at Trove

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,Devine, Frank, Older and Wiser: Essays 2002 - 2009, Quadrant Books, Sydney (2009). "At the age of 70, the author wrote about being home alone when his wife is hospitalised, on being a grandparent, long-term marriage, his cancer treatment and the proper attitude and attire for a man of his age." 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. Australia’s many media dynasties (crikey)

• David Banks, Beloved mentor and mate skips the Ashes , The Australian, 11 July 2009.
• Peter Coleman, 'My Friend Frank'
• Christopher Pearson, Frank conviviality of a Devine fellow soul , The Australian, 11 July 2009.