"linking North and West Yorkshire. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting. She is close friends with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys, and is partial to a game of tennis. Janet Street-Porter Janet Street-Porter, (""née"" Bull; born 27 December 1946) is an English media personality, journalist and broadcaster. She was editor for two years of ""The Independent on Sunday"", but relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002. She has made numerous television appearances on discussion programmes including ""Question"
"Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a British journalist and Conservative life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of ""The Wall Street Journal Europe."" She left this role upon becoming a peer. She previously served as editor of ""The Sunday Telegraph"" newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism. Wheatcroft was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University (LLB, Law, 1972). Wheatcroft and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine ""Retail Week"" in 1988, and Wheatcroft served"
"Woolwich and Lewisham. Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a British journalist and Conservative life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of ""The Wall Street Journal Europe."" She left this role upon becoming a peer. She previously served as editor of ""The Sunday Telegraph"" newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism. Wheatcroft was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University (LLB, Law, 1972). Wheatcroft and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine ""Retail Week"" in 1988,"
"Jean Rook Jean Kathleen Rook (13 November 1931 in Kingston upon Hull – September 1991) was an English journalist dubbed ""The First Lady of Fleet Street"" for her regular opinion column in the ""Daily Express"". She was also, along with Lynda Lee-Potter, a model for the Glenda Slagg column in the satirical magazine ""Private Eye"". The daughter of an engineer and an usherette, Rook was raised in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She was educated at Malet Lambert High School and Bedford College, London, where she became the first woman to edit the Sunday newspaper, ""Sennet"". She began her professional"
"Bouverie Street Bouverie Street is a street in the City of London, off Fleet Street, which once was the home of some of Britain's most widely circulated newspapers as well as the Whitefriars Priory. The offices of the ""News Chronicle"", a British daily paper, were based there until it ceased publication on 17 October 1960 after being absorbed into the ""Daily Mail"". The ""News of the World"" had its offices at No. 30 until move to Wapping in the mid-1980s. Bouverie Street was also the location of the offices of ""Punch"" magazine until the 1990s, and for some decades of"
"led a chant of ""fuck the ""Daily Mail"""" (as Sands's article ran in this newspaper) during one of their live shows. ""Kerrang!"" magazine, in particular, took offense at the article. In February 2008 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the UK edition of ""Reader's Digest"". In February 2009 it was announced that she would be taking up the role of deputy editor on ""London Evening Standard"". She became editor of the ""London Evening Standard"" following Geordie Greig's departure for the ""Mail on Sunday"" in March 2012. In January 2017, she was appointed editor of the BBC Radio 4 ""Today"" programme and"
"Charlie Porter (journalist) Charlie Porter is a British fashion journalist. As he could not afford to study fashion journalism at Central Saint Martins, Porter became a researcher for ""The Daily Express"" in the mid-1990s. He eventually became an arts reporter, as commissioning editor for ""The Times"" and arts editor for ""Esquire"". His first fashion-related post was as deputy fashion editor for ""The Guardian"" in 2000. Following this, Porter became an associate editor for ""GQ"" and deputy editor for the Amsterdam-based magazine ""Fantastic Man"". By 2012, Porter had become a freelance journalist and also dedicated himself to fashion blogging. As of"
"second time, when she was diagnosed as suffering from cancer. Jean Rook Jean Kathleen Rook (13 November 1931 in Kingston upon Hull – September 1991) was an English journalist dubbed ""The First Lady of Fleet Street"" for her regular opinion column in the ""Daily Express"". She was also, along with Lynda Lee-Potter, a model for the Glenda Slagg column in the satirical magazine ""Private Eye"". The daughter of an engineer and an usherette, Rook was raised in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She was educated at Malet Lambert High School and Bedford College, London, where she became the first woman"
"then edited by Christine Rayner, editor of the ""East Kent Gazette"" since 1995. The ""News"" featured general news, a leisure section, a business page, a film review, comment, village news and sport. The ""Medway Standard"", specialised in sports news, particularly coverage of Gillingham Football Club. Previous reporters at the newspaper include Martin Brunt, now crime correspondent for Sky News, Peter Salmon, later controller of BBC One, Robert Tyrer, now associate editor of ""The Sunday Times"", and John Williams, a political editor at ""The Daily Mirror"" and the ""London Evening Standard"", and author of a draft of the September Dossier for"
"freelance reporter for various newspapers, including the ""Vancouver Daily Province"", ""Montreal Star"" and ""Toronto Evening Telegram"". In 1920, when the Telegram merged with the rival ""Winnipeg Tribune"", Porter began working for the Tribune. Later in life, he continued to write a column for the Saturday Tribune called ""The Old-Timer Talks"" and also wrote crime stories for detective magazines. Porter died in his sleep at home in Winnipeg at the age of 78. Garnet Porter Garnet Clay Porter (May 27, 1866 – March 6, 1945) was an American-born journalist and newspaper editor in Manitoba, Canada. He was also known as ""the"
"the paper, a touch of class in something of a workaday wilderness...It's readers have always included both the humble and the mighty, for the Standard circulates widely through the corridors of power."" – Roger Wilkes, ""Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip"" (2002) The Evening Standard Londoner's Diary The Londoner's Diary is a gossip column in the London Evening Standard. Since 1916 the column has provided readers with witty and mischievous insights into high society; from political scandals and literary feuds to the backstage gossip at fashion parties and film premieres. Charles Wintour, who edited the Standard throughout the sixties, once"
"the national press includes features, interviews and analysis on culture, politics and social affairs for The Independent, The Guardian and The Spectator. Matthew Slotover is the co-publisher of Frieze magazine and co-director of the London art fair of the same name in Regent's Park. He is chair of the South London Gallery board of trustees and has acted as a judge for the Turner Prize. Sir Alasdair is Headteacher of Morpeth School, and since his arrival Morpeth's results at Key Stages Three and Four have improved substantially. In February 1999, Morpeth School received the Evening Standard's first ever award as"
"the first edition of the paper, published on 4 February 1906, 11,600 copies were printed and soon sold out, forcing the paper to print an additional 5000 copies. By November 1909 the paper sales had risen to 35 000. In 1992, the former columnist Jani Allan sued the British broadcaster Channel 4 for libel over affair allegations involving her and Eugene Terre'Blanche. Allan had interviewed the AWB leader for the ""Sunday Times"". Allan had already settled out of court with the ""London Evening Standard"" and ""Options"" magazine over similar allegations. The then-news editor of the newspaper, the late Marlene Burger"
"remain a separate title and it was absorbed into the ""Telegraph"". The Morning Post The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ""The Daily Telegraph"". The paper was founded by John Bell. According to Historian Robert Darnton, The Morning Post consisted of paragraph-long news snippets, most of it false. Its original editor, the Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, earned himself nicknames such as ""Reverend Bruiser"" or ""The Fighting Parson"", and was soon replaced by an even more vitriolic editor, Reverend William Jackson, also known as ""Dr. Viper"". Originally"
"Sunday Dispatch The Sunday Dispatch was a British newspaper, published between 27 September 1801 and 18 June 1961, when it was merged with the ""Sunday Express"". Until 1928, it was called the Weekly Dispatch. First published as the ""Weekly Dispatch"" in 1801, the newspaper was bought by Alfred Harmsworth and Lord Rothermere in 1903 from the Newnes family. The pair turned it around from bankruptcy, and made it the biggest selling Sunday newspaper. The name was changed to the ""Sunday Dispatch"" in 1928. As editor Charles Eade had served as Press Liaison officer for Lord Mountbatten during World War II,"
"owns the ""Daily Mirror"" and is the largest newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom. The ""Examiner"" lays claim to a notable first in regional British journalism, as the first provincial UK newspaper to employ a woman journalist, in 1888. ""Examiner"" journalist Adrian Sudbury was given worldwide recognition during his battle with terminal leukaemia between 2006 and 2008. His Sign up for Sudders campaign was aimed at encouraging more people to sign up as bone marrow donors, and education packs about blood, bone marrow and organ donation were sent out to schools across the country. Adrian died at his family home"
"brief editorship of former ITN newscaster Sir Alastair Burnet, Chapman Pincher, the Defence Correspondent, and Jean Rook, Women's Editor. His time there added to the family's long association with ""Express"" and ""Standard"" newspapers. His grandfather Harry was a printer with the ""Evening Standard"", his mother was billeted in World War II with the family of Reg Wootton, the Express's Sporting Sam cartoonist, and his cousin Frances worked in the commercial department. In 1975, in partnership with friends from the ""Express"" and elsewhere, he launched the ""Northants Post"" weekly newspaper in Northampton (closed Dec. 2016) and later sold his shares to"
"in 1939. The company was renamed ""Yorkshire Post Newspapers"" in 1969. The first chairman was William Beckett-Denison, from a Leeds banking family (Beckett's Bank was founded in 1774 and acquired by Westminster Bank in 1921). Successive chairmen were members of the Beckett family until the retirement of Rupert Beckett in 1950. They also print other local titles, such as the ""Dewsbury Reporter"", ""Morley Observer"" and ""Batley News"". Yorkshire Post Newspapers Yorkshire Post Newspapers are publishers of the ""Yorkshire Post"" and ""Yorkshire Evening Post"". They were based at offices in Wellington Street, but in November 2012 they moved to Number 1"
"newspaper's editor is the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, who replaced Sarah Sands. Ms. Sands replaced Geordie Greig following his departure to ""The Mail on Sunday"" in March 2012. Veronica Wadley was the newspaper's editor between 2002 and 2009. Max Hastings was editor from 1996 until he retired in 2002. The ""London Evening Standard"", although a regional newspaper, does cover national and international news, though with an emphasis on London-centred news (especially in its features pages), covering building developments, property prices, traffic schemes, politics, the congestion charge and, in the ""Londoner's Diary"" page, gossip on the social scene."
"William T. Porter William Trotter Porter (December 24, 1809 – July 19, 1858) was an American journalist and newspaper editor who founded an early American newspaper devoted to sports. After working at a number of small newspapers, Porter moved to New York City in the 1830s. After employment at a newspaper in the city, he founded the ""Spirit of the Times"", a newspaper modeled on a London paper called ""Bell's Life in London"". The ""Spirit"", which went through a number of names and incarnations over the years, was devoted to sports and other recreational pursuits. One of Porter's main interests"
"Stockport Express Stockport Express is the local newspaper of Stockport, England. It had an average circulation of 5,217 copies per issue in 2017. It is published every Wednesday. The sister free paper the Stockport Times, published every Thursday and distributed to households in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, has a circulation of 83,709. The editor of both publications is Paul Harrison. In 2009, along with all regional and local newspapers run by M.E.N media, the offices for the Stockport Express were relocated from Stockport, Greater Manchester to Manchester. In 2010, the owners Guardian Media Group, sold the Stockport Express along"
"to those being employed by News International. Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the term ""Fleet Street"" continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press. ""The Independent"" was first published on 7 October 1986. The paper was created at a time of fundamental change and attracted staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to the new headquarters in Wapping. Launched with the advertising slogan ""It is. Are you?"", and challenging ""The Guardian"" for centre-left readers, and ""The Times"" as a newspaper of record, it reached"
"a number of Americans and British in each other countries' press corp, including editors, correspondents, journalists and columnists. Individuals born in the United States active in the British press corp include the ""FT""s news editor Peter Spiegel, ""Daily Telegraph"" columnist Janet Daley, and ""Guardian"" columnists Tim Dowling and Hadley Freeman. Originally from the UK were Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) and the current editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour. The current CEO of The New York Times Company is the former Director-General of the BBC (effectively a CEO), Mark Thompson. The current editor-in-chief of the London-based ""Guardian"" since 2015, Katharine Viner was previously"
"The Morning Post The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ""The Daily Telegraph"". The paper was founded by John Bell. According to Historian Robert Darnton, The Morning Post consisted of paragraph-long news snippets, most of it false. Its original editor, the Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, earned himself nicknames such as ""Reverend Bruiser"" or ""The Fighting Parson"", and was soon replaced by an even more vitriolic editor, Reverend William Jackson, also known as ""Dr. Viper"". Originally a Whig paper, it was purchased by Daniel Stuart in 1795,"
"with a number of other local newspaper titles to competitor Trinity Mirror plc, the deal included the Manchester Evening News. The ""Stockport Express"" has won both local and national awards including 1999 Community Newspaper of the Year. Stockport Express Stockport Express is the local newspaper of Stockport, England. It had an average circulation of 5,217 copies per issue in 2017. It is published every Wednesday. The sister free paper the Stockport Times, published every Thursday and distributed to households in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, has a circulation of 83,709. The editor of both publications is Paul Harrison. In 2009,"
"Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. In December 2016, it had an average daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief in"
"(in south and east Manchester), Trafford (in Trafford and Wythenshawe) and Stockport (in Stockport and Wilmslow). Most of the content of the paper is the same for all three editions, but a few pages differ, with more local advertising and editorial. In February 2010 along with the Guardian Media Group's other regional and local titles, the newspaper was sold to competitor Trinity Mirror plc. This was in order to safeguard the future of the loss making newspaper ""The Guardian"". Its first editor was Bryan Chadderton. He was succeeded by Robert Ridley, now assistant editor of the Manchester Evening News, who"
"Reach plc Reach plc (formerly known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher. It is one of Britain's biggest newspaper groups, publishing 240 regional papers in addition to the national ""Daily Mirror"", ""Sunday Mirror"", ""The People"", as well as the Scottish ""Sunday Mail"" and ""Daily Record"". Since purchasing Local World, it has gained 83 print publications. Trinity Mirror's headquarters are at Canary Wharf in London. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. In February 2018, the company completed the acquisition of the UK publishing"
"on unsustainable manning levels. Thomson management was less robust than it might have been because it feared union repercussions at Times Newspapers, publishers of ""the Times"" and ""Sunday Times"". Many Fleet Street figures such as Peter Wright cut their teeth at the newspaper, which was edited in its early days by Ivor Lewis (former Sunday Times) and Richard Parrack, who was later to become a senior executive with News International. Other outstanding journalists worked on the ""Post-Echo"" in its heyday. They included Melanie Phillips (""Daily Mail""), Stephen Pile (""Sunday Telegraph""), David Francis (""Mail on Sunday""), Cliff Barr (The Sun, Daily"
"News UK News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group), is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ""The Times"", ""The Sunday Times"" and ""The Sun"" newspapers and its former publications include the ""Today"", ""News of the World"" and ""The London Paper"" newspapers. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc. On 31 May 2011 the company name was changed from News International Limited to NI Group Limited, and on 26 June 2013 to News"
"reached its point of greatest influence during the editorship of Henry Dunckley but by 1888 it was in severe decline. There had been criticism of Dunckley's habit of leaving work for home while the bulk of the day's news was still arriving at the offices, and also of the editorial wavering over the issue of Home Rule, in contrast to the strong support shown for it by the ""Manchester Guardian"" that had caused the latter to surge ahead of its competitor. Around the end of 1888, together with its companion newspaper, the ""Manchester Weekly Times"", the ""Manchester Examiner"" was sold"
"of the newspaper in 1989 and was restored in 2001. ""The Daily Telegraph"" was based at No. 135–142. These premises are both Grade II Listed. In the 1930s, No. 67 housed 25 separate publications; by this time the majority of British households bought a daily paper produced from Fleet Street. In 1986 News International owner Rupert Murdoch caused controversy when he moved publication of ""The Times"" and ""The Sun"" away from Fleet Street to new premises in Wapping, East London. Murdoch believed it was impossible to produce a newspaper profitably on Fleet Street and the power of the print unions,"
"it potentially the biggest change in the British newspaper industry for a decade. The ""Sunday Express"" was launched in 1918. It is edited by Michael Booker. Its circulation in December 2016 was 335,271. Suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams was arrested in 1956, accused of murdering up to 400 wealthy patients in Eastbourne, England. The press, ""egged on by police leaks, unanimously declared Adams guilty,"" except for Percy Hoskins, chief crime reporter for the ""Express"". Hoskins was adamant that Adams was a naive doctor prosecuted by an overzealous detective, Herbert Hannam, whom Hoskins disliked from previous cases. The ""Express"","