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Mary Sheila Goldring OBE (born 1923 - died 2016) was a British business journalist and broadcaster. [1]

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An economist who graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Goldring turned to journalism in the late 1940s and became a member of staff at The Economist , where for a long time she was its Business Editor, rising to the rank of Deputy Editor alongside Norman McRae. She left the paper suddenly in spring 1974 following a dispute over its editorship in the wake of the surprise departure of Alastair Burnet, who left to become editor of the Daily Express .

Goldring then moved to the BBC and meantime also wrote a weekly column for the Investors Chronicle , edited at the time by Andreas Whittam Smith. In 1976 she became one of the main regular presenters of BBC Radio 4's Analysis series of analytical authored current-affairs documentaries. She developed it into a flagship programme, staying with it until 1987. She also made five series of television documentaries, the Goldring Audit, for Channel 4 screened from 1993 to 1998.

In the late 1960s, Mary Goldring was The Economist's aviation correspondent, a post in which she was highly critical of the development programme for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic aircraft, on the basis of noise, pollution and above all what she predicted would be disastrous commercial economics. [2]

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  1. ↑ "Mary Sheila GOLDRING". gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  2. ↑ Walgreen, John; Rastattef, E.H.; Moore, Arnold (May 1973). "The Economics of the United States Supersonic Transport". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 26 (4): 186–193. JSTOR   20052321 . Retrieved 13 March 2023.


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