Patience Wheatcroft

Patience Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a former British journalist 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 leader David 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 of Barclays 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 the London Development Agency and the Greater 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 ]

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