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Paul Connew
Paul Norman Connew (born 1946) is a British former newspaper editor. Born in Coventry, Connew attended King Henry VIII Grammar School, an independent school in the city, followed by the LSE. He entered journalism working for the '' Coventry Express'', then moved to the ''Coventry Evening Telegraph.'' He later moved to London to work for the ''Daily Mirror'' and was the Mirror Group's US Bureau chief until joining the Murdoch organisation in the US before returning to London. He became Deputy Editor of the ''News of the World'' before returning to the ''Mirror'' as Deputy Editor. He edited the ''Sunday Mirror'' for a short period starting in 1994, and subsequently worked as a consultant for Express Newspapers and TalkSport. Connew was formerly married to television presenter Lowri Turner during which period he became a house husband, but the couple, who have two sons, separated after 10 years in 2002, and divorced in 2004. Connew subsequently worked as Director of Communicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Press Awards
The Press Awards, formerly the British Press Awards, is an annual ceremony that celebrates the best of British journalism. History Established in 1962 by ''The People'' and '' World's Press News'', the first award ceremony for the then-named ''Hannen Swaffer Awards'', named after journalist Hannen Swaffer, was held in 1963. It was judged by a small panel of senior figures in journalism and awarded just three awards. Following an earlier consolidation of companies into the International Publishing Corporation, the 1966 awards were restyled the ''International Publishing Corporation Hannen Swaffer Awards'' and the number of awards issued had increased to ten. The 1975 awards saw the name change to the ''British Press Awards''. After having been run by the ''Press Gazette'' for over 20 years, in 2010 the awards were taken over by the Society of Editors. Although often still referred to as the ''British Press Awards'', after the take-over the name was changed for the 2010 awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Editors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Andy Coulson
Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968) is an English journalist and political strategist. Coulson was the editor of the ''News of the World'' from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking. He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair. The overall impact from his tenure came to be known as the "Coulson effect". Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking. He was detained and charged with perjury by Strathclyde Police on 30 May 2012 in relation to evidence he had given in the trial of Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan in 2010, and cleared on 3 June 2015. In June 2014 at the Old Bailey, Coulson was found guilty of a charge of conspiracy to intercept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Wade
Rebekah Mary Brooks (; born 27 May 1968) is a British media executive and former journalist and newspaper editor. She has been chief executive officer of News UK since 2015. She was previously CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011 and was the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at '' News of the World'', from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of '' The Sun'', from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of ''News of the World'' from 2000 to 2003 when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was published by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was found not guilty of conspiracy to hack voicemails, two counts of conspiracy to pay public officials and two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by a jury a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Hilton
Tessa Hilton (born 18 February 1951) is a British magazine executive and former newspaper editor. After failing to start a career in acting, Hilton trained as a journalist with the ''Daily Mirror'' before becoming a news reporter with the ''Sunday Mirror''. She took several years out of the media when her children were born, but started freelancing articles about parenthood for magazines, then wrote the ''Great Ormond Street Book of Child Health''.Scott Hughes,CV: TESSA HILTON Deputy editor, The Express, ''The Independent'', 14 April 1997 In 1985, Hilton returned to regular employment at ''Mother'' magazine, then in 1987 she moved to the ''Today'' newspaper. She was promoted to Features Editor and then to Assistant Editor before moving to become editor the "Femail" section of the ''Daily Mail''. Hilton became Assistant Editor at '' The Sun'' in 1994, then Editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'' briefly in 1995, before moving to become Deputy Editor of the ''Daily Express''. At the ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Myler
Colin Myler is a US-based British journalist. Early life Myler grew up in the Hough Green area of Widnes, Cheshire. He was raised Catholic, served as an altar boy and attended SS John Fisher and Thomas More Roman Catholic High School, at the time a secondary modern school, in Widnes. Career Myler started his career working for the ''Catholic Pictorial'' in Liverpool, before joining West Lancs Press Agency in Southport '' The Sun'' and later the '' Daily Mail''. He was appointed news editor of the '' Sunday People'',Editor resigns after trial collapse , , 12 April 2001 then moved to '' |
Brendon Parsons
Brendon Parsons is a former British national newspaper editor. He edited both The People and The Sunday Mirror titles after six years as deputy editor of the Daily Mirror, the last two alongside Piers Morgan. Career Early career Parsons was trained at The Wimborne and Ferndown Journal in Dorset, moved to the Portsmouths News and Fleet Street News Agency in London before joining the Brighton Evening Argus in 1977, where he became crime reporter. He won the regional Senior Journalist of the Year Award at the age of 21 and rose to become assistant chief sub-editor before leaving newspapers to read Law at Sussex University. Tempted back into newspapers by becoming the first journalist hired in two years at the Daily Mirror in mid 80s at a time when the paper was considered "the mink lined coffin" - so highly regarded and so well paid that no-one ever left. Today Parsons left two years later when headhunted by Today newspaper, the first ever colour newspaper. As chief sub-editor on ''To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hall (journalist)
Phil Hall (born 8 January 1955) is a British journalist, the former editor of the ''News of the World'' and the founder and chairman of the PHA Group, an award-winning London PR agency. Hall entered journalism in 1974, as a reporter on the '' Dagenham Post''. He then moved to the ''Ilford Recorder'' and subsequently filled a sub-editor post on the ''Newham Recorder'', but returned to reporting at the ''Sunday People''. In 1992, he was appointed news editor of the ''Sunday Express'' and the following year, he joined the ''News of the World'' as assistant editor, becoming deputy editor and, in 1995, editor.News of the World editor quits , '' BBC News
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Martin Dunn (journalist)
Martin Dunn (born 26 January 1955) is a British people, British journalist and former newspaper editor.Roy Greenslad"Martin Dunn's wife dies of cancer" theguardian.com (Greenslade blog), 12 January 2014 Dunn attended Dudley Grammar School, then started his journalistic career on the ''Dudley Herald''. In 1977, he moved to the ''Birmingham Evening Mail'', then the ''Birmingham Post'', and the ''Daily Mail''. After a period as a freelance, he joined ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' in 1983, as the papers' New York correspondent. In 1988, he became the Deputy Editor of the ''News of the World'', and the following year, Deputy Editor of ''The Sun''. He left the News International group in 1991 to take up a post as Editor of ''Today (UK newspaper), Today'', where he spent two years, before moving to become Editor of the ''Boston Herald'', and almost immediately Editor-in-Chief of the ''New York Daily News''. In 1996, he moved on to Channel One Television, then worked for DMG N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
