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Alison Phillips
Alison Phillips (born 1970) is a British journalist who served as the editor of the ''Daily Mirror'' between 2018 and 2024. Biography Phillips grew up in Essex and first worked as a reporter for the ''Harlow Star'' Weekly Newspaper. She then attended the University of Leeds where she took a secondment for a year as the editor of the student newspaper (''Leeds Student'', now called ''the Gryphon''). She then worked for the '' Evening Argus'' in Brighton, Connors News Agency and ''Woman'' before joining Trinity Mirror (now Reach) in 1998 as a feature writer on the ''Sunday People'' magazine. In 2016, Phillips launched '' The New Day'', a national newspaper which aimed to deliver politically neutral news, primarily for a female audience. Its launch was sceptically received by media commentators. The new venture failed to reach target circulation and was closed two months after its launch. Later that year she was made Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Trinity Mirror papers. ''Daily M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. Responsibilities Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include: * Ensuring that content is journalistically objective * Fact-checking, spelling, grammar, writing style, page design and photos * Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghostwritten, published elsewhere, or of little interest to readers * Evaluating and editing content * Contributing editorial pieces * Motivating and developing editorial staff * Ensuring the final draft is complete * Handling reader compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brexit Negotiations
Between 2017 and 2019, representatives of the United Kingdom and the European Union negotiated the terms of Brexit, the UK's planned withdrawal from membership of the EU. These negotiations arose following the decision of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to invoke Withdrawal from the European Union#Procedure, Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which in turn followed the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, UK's EU membership referendum on 23 June 2016 in which 52% of votes were in favour of leaving. The negotiating period began on 29 March 2017, when the United Kingdom United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, served its withdrawal notice under Article 50. The withdrawal was then planned to occur on 29 March 2019, two years after the date of notification as specified in Article 50. Negotiations formally opened on 19 June 2017 when David Davis (British politician), David Davis, the UK's Secretary of State for Exi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Women Journalists
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21st-century British Journalists
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People From Essex
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon, ending the Nigerian Civil War. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – ''Ohsumi (satellite), Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. * February – Multi-business Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Virgin Group is founded as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Waterston
Caroline Waterston (born November 1978) is a British newspaper editor. Waterston began working for Trinity Mirror in 2001. She rose to become deputy editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'' and ''Sunday People'', then deputy editor-in-chief of the '' Daily Star'' and ''Daily Express''. She then became leader of Reach plc's magazine and supplement group, leading changes to the online presence of ''OK!'' magazine and the launch of a linked beauty box subscription. In February 2024, she became acting editor-in-chief of the ''Daily Mirror The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the tit ...'', taking the position on a permanent basis in April. She later also took on the responsibility of editing the ''Sunday Mirror'' and ''Sunday People''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Waterston, Charlott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Willis (journalist)
Peter Willis (25 December 1966 – 25 June 2021) was a British journalist and newspaper editor. Born in London, Willis grew up in French Guiana, Manchester and then Buxton. There, he was educated at Buxton College, and presented a hospital radio show at the Devonshire Royal Hospital. At the age of 18, he began working for the ''Manchester Evening News''. Willis later worked for ''The Sun'', the '' Daily Star'' and the ''Daily Express'', becoming known for his celebrity reporting. In 1997, he moved to the ''Daily Mirror'', as the first editor of its Saturday magazine, ''The Look''. He then served for many years as features editor of the newspaper, and founded the Pride of Britain Awards. In 2012, Willis was appointed editor of the ''Mirror'', serving until 2018, when he moved to become editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'' and the ''Sunday People The ''Sunday People'' is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as ''The People'' on 16 October 1881. At one point ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Jones (journalist)
Gary Jones is a British journalist who was editor of the ''Daily Express'' from March 2018 until September 2024. Earlier in his career he was on the staff of the ''News of the World'', ''The Sunday People'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. From 2016 to 2018. Jones was the Editor of the ''Sunday Mirror'' and ''The Sunday People''. Early life Jones is the son of Conservative Party-supporting lifelong ''Daily Express''-reading parents. He trained at journalist college in Preston, Lancashire, now part of the University of Central Lancashire. Career In April 1995, while at the ''News of the World'' when Piers Morgan was editor, Jones was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards. Later, at the ''Daily Mirror'' (Morgan was editor), Jones was one of "three key media contacts" for Southern Investigations, a private detective agency whose investigator Jonathan Rees is said to have "set up network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable informatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Weaver
Tina Weaver is a British journalist and former National Newspaper editor. Weaver started her career at the South West News Service, then worked for the '' Sunday People'' from 1989 to 1992 becoming Chief Reporter before spending a year at the ''Daily Mirror''. She then joined '' Today''." target="_blank" class="mw-redirect" title="MACGREGOR AND WEAVER APPOINTED TO PCC AS DACRE LEAVES TO HEAD CODE COMMITTEE">MACGREGOR AND WEAVER APPOINTED TO PCC AS DACRE LEAVES TO HEAD CODE COMMITTEE , 4 March 2008 In 1994, she was named Reporter of the Year for exposing 's relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Mirror
The ''Sunday Mirror'' is the Sunday sister paper of the ''Daily Mirror''. It began life in 1915 as the ''Sunday Pictorial'' and was renamed the ''Sunday Mirror'' in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the News of the World#End of publication, closure of the ''News of the World'', more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. History ''Sunday Pictorial'' (1915–1963) The paper launched as the ''Sunday Pictorial'' on 14 March 1915. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced the ''Sunday Pictorial'' to the British public with the idea of striking a balance between socially responsible reporting of great issues of the day and sheer entertainment. Although the newspaper has gone through many refinements in its near 100-year history those original c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
