Richard Addis

Richard Addis
Occupation	Editor-in-Chief

Richard Addis (born 23 August 1956) is a British journalist and former editor of the Daily Express newspaper. He is a former novice Anglican monk.

Addis was educated at West Downs School, Rugby School and Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA and an MA.

His started in journalism as a copy runner on the Portsmouth News where he says he amused friends with his impersonation of Reg Varney, but his career finally took off when he was taken on as a reporter on Londoner's Diary of the London Evening Standard in 1985. He went on to become Editor of Londoner's Diary and Assistant Editor (Features). In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph. In 1991 he was appointed Executive Editor at the Daily Mail. In 1995, he was appointed editor of the Daily Express and a year later became editor-in-chief of the Daily and Sunday Express. He left the Express in 1998 to move to Canada as editor of the The Globe and Mail in Toronto, a post he held from July 1999-July 2002.

In 2002 he returned to London as Assistant Editor at the Financial Times. Throughout his time at the FT he was design editor and for two years was also weekend editor, in charge of the paper's Saturday edition.

Richard Addis left the FT in February 2006 to launch his own media business, Shakeup Media. He is a member of the Board of Governors of York University in Toronto, but lives in London with the British actress Helen Schlesinger and has five children, Sebastian, Theo, Katharine, Beatrice and Ferdinand.

Sources

• Richard Addis to leave FT
• The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming by Jocelyn Bell, Summer 2000, Ryerson Review of Journalism
• http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060201/ai_n16036828
• History of The Globe and Mail

References

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Preceded by Ian Watson	Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1989–1991	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Sir Nicholas Lloyd	Editor of the Daily Express 1995–1998	Succeeded by Rosie Boycott
Preceded by Sue Douglas	Editor of the Sunday Express 1995–1998	Succeeded by Amanda Platell
Preceded by William Thorsell	Editor of The Globe and Mail 1999–2002	Succeeded by Edward Greenspon