Kim Fletcher (born 17 September 1956) is a partner of the international corporate communications firm Brunswick, and a former journalist and newspaper editor. Educated at

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, where he read law, and University College, Cardiff, where he received a postgraduate diploma in journalism, Fletcher worked for various newspapers before being appointed news editor and then deputy editor of ''

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''. He left to become editor of ''

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'' from 1998 to 1999, then returned to be Editorial Director of Hollinger's Telegraph New Media, the internet arm of Telegraph Group Limited, from 2000 to 2003 and Editorial Director of Telegraph Group Limited from 2003 to 2005. Kim Fletcher is author of ''The Journalist's Handbook'' ( Macmillan). He is married to the journalist

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, former editor of the ''

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'' programme, and former editor of the ''

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'' and ''

''.

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Journalisted - Articles by Kim Fletcher
1956 births Living people British male journalists The Independent on Sunday editors British newspaper editors Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford {{UK-journalist-stub