- Patience Wheatcroft
Patience Wheatcroft (born
28 September 1951 ) is a former Britishjournalist who served as editor of the "Sunday Telegraph"newspaper . She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and has since moved out of journalism [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/13/sundaytelegraph.pressandpublishing] .Career
In journalism
Wheatcroft has worked on several national newspapers including "
The Daily Mail ", "The Sunday Times" and "The Daily Telegraph ". After serving as Deputy City Editor of the "Mail on Sunday ", Wheatcroft was appointed Business & City Editor of "The Times " in 1997, and then as editor of the "Sunday Telegraph " in March 2006.In 2001 she won the Winscott Senior Journalist of the Year Award, and in 2003 was London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year.
A controversy erupted in December 2006 when she heavily censored
Christopher Booker 's "Sunday Telegraph" column for 3 December, removing sections highly critical of Conservative Party leaderDavid Cameron . Booker told his colleague Richard North: "I was told by the "SunTel" editor today that my item attacking Cameron is to be dropped. This is the first time such a thing has happened since I began writing the column 16 years ago." [ [http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/12/booker-column-censored.html EU Referendum Blog, "Booker column censored", Sunday, December 03, 2006.] Retrieved 31 December 2006.]On 4 September 2007 she resigned as editor of "The Sunday Telegraph" being replaced by Ian MacGregor , 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. [Jemima Kiss [http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2162336,00.html "Wheatcroft quits Sunday Telegraph",] "The Guardian", 4 September 2007.]
In other fields
Since 1 January 2008, Wheatcroft has served as a
non-executive director ofBarclays plc . [ [http://www.newsroom.barclays.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=1291&NewsAreaID=1 Biography of Patience Wheatcroft on Barclays.com] Retrieved 23 June 2008]On 8 May 2008 she was appointed head of the newly created Forensic Audit Panel by the incoming
Mayor of London ,Boris Johnson . The panel is tasked with monitoring and investigating financial management at theLondon Development Agency and theGreater London Authority .cite web | title = Mayor of London announces new Forensic Audit Panel to investigate GLA and LDA | publisher = Greater London Authority | date = 2008-05-08 | url = http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=16814 | accessdate = 2008-05-07]Private life
Wheatcroft is married with three children. She is a lifelong supporter of the Conservative Party and her publisher husband Tony is a Conservative councillor. [cite news
title = The Media Guardian 100 – 87 Patience Wheatcroft
publisher = The Guardian
date = July 17 2006
url = http://media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2006/story/0,,1811773,00.html
accessdate = 2007-09-30 ]ources
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