John Witherow

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John Witherow is a former student of the University and currently the Editor of the Sunday Times. He came to speak at the University in November 2006.

Witherow attended Bedford Independent School before coming to the University of York and afterward he enrolled at the Cardiff School of Journalism. He began his career at the Reuters news agency and then joined The Times newspaper as a reporter, where he covered the Falklands War in 1982. Moving to the Sunday Times, he then took up several editorial positions, including that of Foreign Editor. Following the departure of Andrew Neil as Editor of the Sunday Times in 1994, Witherow became Acting Editor and then Editor in 1995. He is now one of the longest-serving editors in Rupert Murdoch’s News International empire.

Witherow was nominated as GQ's Newspaper Editor of the Year in 2005 (as part of the magazine's 'Men of the Year' awards). He lost out to Roger Alton of the Observer.