The Scott Trust Limited is the British company that owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian and The Observer as well as various other media businesses in the UK. In 2008, it replaced the Scott Trust, which had owned The Guardian since 1936.
David Levin is a British businessman. In 2019, he was named university entrepreneur in residence at Arizona State University and is the creator and Executive Producer of REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit.
Janine Victoria Gibson is a British journalist who was appointed editor of the Weekend FT in 2023. Previously she was assistant editor of the Financial Times since May 2019. Before then, in the summer of 2014, she became deputy editor of Guardian News and Media and editor-in-chief of theguardian.com website in London. She was the editor-in-chief in New York City of Guardian US, the offshoot of The Guardian which won the Pulitzer Public Service prize in 2014. After leaving The Guardian, she was editor-in-chief of the BuzzFeed UK website until she stepped down in January 2019 as the publication announced financial difficulties.
Robert James Kenneth Peston is an English journalist, presenter, and author. He is the Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston alongside ITV News Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana. From 2006 until 2014, he was the Business Editor of BBC News and its Economics Editor from 2014 to 2015. He became known to the wider public with his reporting on the 2007–2008 financial crisis, especially with his exclusive information on the Northern Rock crisis. He is the founder of the education charity Speakers for Schools.
The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that has celebrated the best of British journalism since the 1970s. A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business, they have been described as "the Oscars of British journalism", or less flatteringly, "The Hackademy Awards".
Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft is a British journalist and life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe. She left this role upon becoming a peer.
The Department of Journalism at City, University of London, is a journalism school in London. It is regarded as one of the best universities in the United Kingdom for the study of journalism. as well as the nation's largest centre for journalism education. It was described by Michael Hann of The Guardian, along with Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, as the "Oxbridge of journalism".
Roy Greenslade is a British author and freelance journalist, and a former professor of journalism. He worked in the UK newspaper industry from the 1960s onwards. As a media commentator, he wrote a daily blog from 2006 to 2018 for The Guardian and a column for London's Evening Standard from 2006 to 2016. Under a pseudonym, Greenslade also wrote for the Sinn Féin newspaper An Phoblacht during the late 1980s whilst also working on Fleet Street. In 2021, it was reported in The Times newspaper, citing an article by Greenslade in the British Journalism Review, that he supported the bombing campaign of the Provisional IRA. Following this revelation, Greenslade resigned as Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London.
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent. Her best-selling book, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, was published by Transworld/Doubleday in July 2021.
Christina Lamb OBE is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times.
James Paul Harding is a British journalist, and a former director of BBC News who was in the post from August 2013 until 1 January 2018. He is the co-founder of Tortoise Media.
Gillian Romaine Tett is a British author and journalist. She is the chair of the editorial board for the Financial Times, jointly serving as its U.S. editor-at-large. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. Tett co-founded Moral Money, the paper's sustainability newsletter.
Katharine Sophie Viner is a British journalist and playwright. She became the first female editor-in-chief at The Guardian on 1 June 2015, succeeding Alan Rusbridger. Viner previously headed The Guardian's web operations in Australia and the United States, before being selected for the editor-in-chief's position.
Kira Cochrane is a British journalist and novelist. She is the Head of Features at The Guardian, and worked previously as Head of Opinion. Cochrane is an advocate for women's rights, as well as an active participant in fourth wave feminist movements.
James Franklin Archibald "Archie" Bland, is a British newspaper journalist who writes the Guardian's daily morning newsletter First Edition.
Helen Alexandra Lewis is a British journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is a former deputy editor of the New Statesman, and has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
Georgina Clare Henry was a British journalist. Associated with The Guardian newspaper for 25 years from 1989 until her death in 2014, she held several senior positions at the newspaper.
Liliane Landor is a Lebanese-born British journalist and broadcasting executive who worked as the Director of the BBC World Service from 2021 until 2024. She worked for the BBC from 1989 to mid-2016, becoming controller for languages at the Service, where she was responsible for radio and television broadcasting in 27 languages. She launched the BBC's 100 Women project in 2014. In November 2016, she was included as one of the inspirational and influential women of 2016 in the BBC's 100 Women — the theme was "defiance".
Paula Escobar Chavarría is a Chilean editor, columnist, journalist, professor and writer. She is a recipient of the Lenka Franulic Award. She is an opinion columnist at La Tercera, host and panelist on CNN Chile, Founder and executive director of The Women and Media Chair at Universidad Diego Portales, and tenured professor at The Faculty of Communications of UDP.
Eleanor Mills is a British journalist formerly associated with The Sunday Times and The Times. She was the editorial director of The Sunday Times and editor of its magazine until March 2020. Mills was employed by Times Newspapers for 22 years.
