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Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a British journalist and life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of ''
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.'' She left this role upon becoming a peer. She previously served as editor of ''
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'' newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism.


Career

Wheatcroft was educated at
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and
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(LLB, Law, 1972). She and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine ''
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'' in 1988, and Wheatcroft served as its consultant editor until 1992. She has worked on several national newspapers, including the '' Daily Mail'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. After serving as Deputy City Editor of ''
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'', she was appointed Business and City Editor of ''
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'' in 1997, and then as editor of ''
The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
'' in March 2006. Wheatcroft won the Wincott Senior Journalist of the Year Award in 2001, and in 2003 was London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year. She resigned as editor of ''The Sunday Telegraph'' on 4 September 2007, being replaced by
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, who until then had been deputy editor of ''The Daily Telegraph''. Reports stated that Wheatcroft was under pressure to integrate the Sunday paper's reporters with the daily newspaper's 24/7 operation.


Appointments

From 1 January 2008 until 2009, Wheatcroft served as a
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of
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. From 27 February 2008 until 2009, she served as a non-executive director of Shaftesbury plc, a British property investment company with assets in central London. On 8 May 2008, she was appointed head of the newly created Forensic Audit Panel by the incoming
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,
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. The panel is tasked with monitoring and investigating financial management at the
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and the Greater London Authority. On 30 July 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Wheatcroft to the board of the
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. On 22 December 2010, Wheatcroft was created a life peer as Baroness Wheatcroft, ''of Blackheath in the
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''. She sat in the
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as a
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peer, having been a long-standing supporter of the party, until November 2019, but now sits as an unaffiliated peer. 4 April 2012 she become non-executive board member of Fiat S.p.A. , 12 October 2014 until Stellantis-group's creation 16 January 2021 she become non-executive board member of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.


Personal life

Wheatcroft is married with three children. Her publisher husband Tony was a Conservative Party campaigner working in the London boroughs of Greenwich and
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.


References

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