Robert Edwards (1925- ) is a British journalist.

Edwards was editor of Tribune (1951-54), a feature writer on the Evening Standard (1954-57), deputy editor of the Sunday Express (1957-59), managing editor of the Daily Express (1959-61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow Evening Citizen (1962-63), editor of the Daily Express again (1963-65), editor of the Sunday People (1966-72) and editor of the Sunday Mirror (1972-84). He was a director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1976 to 1988.

Edwards published an autobiography in 1988, Goodbye Fleet Street.