'Richard Addis' (born 1956) is a
British journalist and former editor of the ''
Daily Express'' newspaper. He is a graduate of
Cambridge University and a former novice
Anglican monk.
He started his first staff job on newspapers in 1985 as a reporter on Londoner's Diary of the London ''
Evening Standard''. 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 four children, Theo, Katharine, Beatrice and Ferdinand.
Sources
★
Richard Addis to leave FT
★ http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2000/summer/319/
★ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060201/ai_n16036828
★
History of The Globe and Mail