Life from press to digital...

Richard Addis: I’ve been editor – or have edited – seven national newspapers, which I think must be some sort of record (Evening Standard, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Globe and Mail and Financial Times). That may be a grandiose claim – but it certainly feels like I’ve employed every journalist in the UK at some time or another! I’ve been editor-in-chief of Express Newspapers, I turned around the fortunes of the Globe and Mail in Toronto and, more recently, I was the launch editor for Newsweek Europe in print and online. I’ve run my own media consultancy with clients in Africa, the Middle East and India and currently run the world’s first “daily” current affairs teaching and learning website for schools, with subscribers in 21 countries.

George Pitcher: I started as a rival diarist to Richard in the marketing trade press and then freelanced for national titles, before joining The Observer as a financial journalist and going on to be an award-winning Industrial Editor. More recently, I’ve had senior positions at the Daily Telegraph, as a regular columnist and leader writer and was editor-in-chief of a global news platform, which grew its traffic by 70 per cent in 12 months on my watch through premium content alone. In a commercial break, I co-founded (and named) the innovative media consultancy Luther Pendragon in the Nineties, which we successfully sold to its management. In 2013, I was co-founding chairman of Jericho Chambers, a radical alternative to communications consultancy.