Posted: September 16th, 2015
DAVID THOMPSON joined the Daily Mirror as a news sub-editor in 1966. Two years on he was in the political team becoming …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
Tom Brown trained in Scotland, then worked on the Daily Express in London 1964-78 as news reporter, news and features executive, medical …
Posted: March 13th, 2017
DEBORAH THOMAS, who was appointed chairman of AMP in June 2017, got her first journalistic job on the iconic ’60s magazine, Nova, …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
Gerald Mowbray spent most of his working life in the general printing industry in various management positions before moving to MGN and …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
RAY EVANS started at Mirror Group in 1968 as a clerk in the transport department, and later became supervisor in a new …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
CARO CLUSKEY enjoyed a long and successful career with Odhams Newspapers and Mirror Group, first on the Sunday People and latterly in …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
BILL BERENTEMFEL joined the Mirror organisation in 1961 working for the Sunday Pictorial. He transferred to IPC in 1966 when the IPC …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
JEAN CARR worked as a staff journalist for over 35 years on student, local, regional and national newspapers. She was one of …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
Rob Cunningham began work as a graphic artist, and in 1991, joined the process department of the SDR&SM until early retirement in …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
GEORGE EASTON joined the Daily Record & Sunday Mail in 1970 as Borders/North of England circulation representative. He moved to Glasgow in …
Posted: September 28th, 2020
WHILE masterminding coverage of 10 major news stories as news editor of the Daily Mirror – including the Hillsborough and P&O ferry …
Posted: June 16th, 2021
THE AMP Committee needed strengthening following the sad departures of members Richard Polyblank and, more recently, Peter Cook, as well as Stephanie …
Posted: May 28th, 2022
BOB MILLER recently replaced Russell Stewart on the AMP Committee. Russell has become an MGNPS Trustee Director.
After working in heavy industry in …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
Isabel Mulligan joined the Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail working in tele-sales. She moved over to advertising make-up and learned to …
Posted: October 23rd, 2017
TONY PATEY was a rookie reporter on the Hertfordshire Mercury, and had stints with East London News Agency and the Bucks Herald, …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
BILL ROWNTREE worked his first Saturday shift for then Sunday Mirror picture editor Derek Jameson in 1964. Bill was sent to watch …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
MALCOLM SPEED retired from the Daily Record in 2006 after more than 40 years’ pensionable service. He had been news editor of …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
DAVID TATTERSALL started as a journalist in 1964 on the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in Blackburn, followed by a stint on The Journal in Newcastle …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
DENNIS TINKER was born in South Africa in 1949, and in 1956 travelled to England on the Carnarvon Castle ship with his …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
RAY WEAVER entered newspapers in 1961 aged 20 as a photographer on the South East London Mercury. In 1964 he joined the …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
MONTY COURT came to the AMP committee after a lifetime in Fleet Street. Following five years on provincial newspapers he joined the Evening …
Posted: November 7th, 2019
JOHN HEMPLE joined the Daily Mirror in 1960, one day before his fifteenth birthday. During a 41-year career with the company he …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
CRAWFORD McAFEE has been an AMP Committee Member for several years. He is now fully retired after a sub-editing career spanning 49 …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
ALAN SHILLUM studied engineering but entered newspapers in 1958 aged 24 as a reporter on the Walthamstow Guardian. In 1961 he became …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
PATRICIA SMYLLIE began her career in the Foreign Office (Berlin, London). She later became the Daily Mail’s junior foreign correspondent, then filled …
Posted: September 16th, 2015
STEPHANIE KERSTEIN has stood down from the AMP Committee following her appointment as an MGNPS trustee. We thank Stephanie warmly and with …
Posted: April 3rd, 2022
RUSSELL STEWART has stood down from the AMP Committee following his appointment as an MGNPS trustee. We thank him warmly and with …