Patience Wheatcroft
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Patience Wheatcroft (born 1951) is a British journalist who is currently editor of the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
She 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.
She is married with three children. Her husband Tony is a publisher and Conservative councillor.
A controversy erupted in December 2006 when she heavily censored Christopher Booker's Sunday Telegraph column for December 3, 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."[1]
[edit] Sources
- ^ EU Referendum Blog, Booker column censored, Sunday, December 03, 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
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Editor of The Sunday Telegraph 2006–Present |
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