William Lewis Biography
William Lewis is a British newspaper publishing executive. Earlier in his career, he was known as a journalist and then editor. His early career he worked for the Mail on Sunday and the Financial Times, before joining the Telegraph group in which he quickly gained promotion. Lewis was the editor of The Daily Telegraph from 2006 (until 2009) and from 2007 editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group. He left the Telegraph group in May 2010 over a disagreement with senior colleagues. Taking up a post as general manager of News International in September 2010, he joined the Management and Standards Commission (MSC) in February 2011 and became the Chief Creative Officer of the ‘new’ News Corporation in February 2013. In 2014, Lewis was named the CEO of Dow Jones.
He attended a comprehensive school in north London, Whitefield School, before studying Politics and Economics at Bristol University, where he wrote for the student newspaper, Epigram. He completed a postgraduate diploma in Periodical Journalism at City University. After graduation, he joined the Mail on Sunday as a business reporter in 1991. He later moved to the Financial Times, working there for eight years. His last job at the FT was news editor, having been the Mergers and Acquisitions Editor based in New York. In 1999 he broke the story that Exxon was merging with Mobil, then the biggest industrial merger. Lewis was a business editor of The Sunday Times from 2002 to 2005.
William Lewis Age
William was born in 1969. He is about 50 years old.
Willam Lewis Net Worth
William’s primary income source is Celebrity, Currently, We don’t have enough information about Cars, Monthly/Yearly Salary, etc. We will update soon.
William Lewis Wife
Lewis is married with four children; he met his wife as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol. His brother Simon Lewis was the Director of Communication for Gordon Brown, while he was Prime Minister, and is now chief executive of the Association of Financial Markets Europe.
In July 2010 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from his alma mater Bristol University. and in September 2010 he was made Doctor of Letters by the University of Lincoln.
William Lewis Telegraph Media Group
Lewis joined The Daily Telegraph in 2005, as the City editor and joint deputy editor. He was appointed the editor of The Telegraph on 9 October 2006, becoming the youngest ever editor of the newspaper. Within a year of his appointment, he was made editor-in-chief of the combined titles after working to integrate the publishing process across the group.
As an editor and editor-in-chief, also ultimately responsible for The Sunday Telegraph and the telegraph.co.uk website. he oversaw the Telegraph’s investigation into the parliamentary expenses scandal in May 2009. The expenses investigations scoops, all closely associated with the journalist Heather Brooke, saw The Daily Telegraph honored at the British Press Awards.
He also attempted a broader debate at The Telegraph about the environment. While the newspapers and website continued to house global warming skeptics such as Christopher Booker and James Delingpole, he also recruited Geoffrey Lean, the environmental commentator to write a weekly column and lead the Telegraph’s global warming coverage.
He was succeeded in the editor’s chair by Tony Gallagher in late 2009, but remained editor-in-chief and was promoted to manage the Telegraph Media Group’s digital businesses, heading up the short-lived Euston Partners, a new entrepreneurial digital division. He left the Telegraph Media Group in May 2010, after a “disagreement” with the chief executive.
William Lewis Vince Cable Leak
Daily Telegraph reporters secretly recorded the UK Business Secretary Vince Cable in December 2010, making a number of unguarded remarks about the UK government and also his view that “we have declared war on Murdoch”. The Telegraph reported the remarks about the government, but did not publish his views on Murdoch.
These views were controversial because Cable was overseeing in a sub-judicial role the bid by Murdoch’s News Corporation for all of BSkyB. The remarks about Murdoch were leaked to the BBC’s Business Editor, Robert Peston. He broadcast them, to the consternation of the Telegraph and of Cable who was forced to step aside from his oversight of the BSkyB bid.
In July 2011, Reuters reported that the corporate investigations firm Kroll had “strong reasons” to suspect that Lewis had been involved in the leak to Peston. The leaks took place three months after Lewis left the Telegraph. They were seen to be of commercial benefit to News Corporation, the parent company of News International, in relation to the News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB.
William Lewis News
William was appointed general manager In July 2010, for News International’s stable of UK newspapers – The Sun, The Times, News of the World (which has since ceased publication) and The Sunday Times. He joined in September 2010, reporting to Joel Klein, a member of the News Corp board. and became an Executive Member of the Management and Standards Committee (MSC) in July 2011.
The MSC is responsible for helping the police and other bodies find out the facts about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. The MSC is chaired by Lord Grabiner and reports to Gerson Zweifach, General Counsel of the News Corp. Lewis was group general manager at News International in the UK, a post he held from September 2010.
He then was appointed to the role of Chief Creative Officer in February 2013. News Corporation is planning to split into two separate companies – Fox and News Corporation. Lewis will be CCO of News Corporation, reporting to Robert Thomson, the chief executive officer.
William Lewis News Corp
William Lewis was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal in May 2014. He previously served as Chief Creative Officer for News Corp, the parent company of Dow Jones, where he was responsible for the company’s creative strategy and developing new commercial opportunities.
Before joining News Corp, Mr. Lewis served as Editor-in-Chief of Telegraph Media Group, which he joined in 2005. Under his editorship, The Daily Telegraph was named UK Newspaper of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards. This followed the paper’s exposure of the parliamentary expenses scandal.