Kim Fletcher

Kim Fletcher
Born (1956-09-17) 17 September 1956 (age 68)
NationalityBritish
EducationHeversham Grammar School
Alma materHertford College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist
Known forEditor, The Independent on Sunday, 1998–99
SpouseSarah Sands

Kim Fletcher (born 17 September 1956) is a former journalist and newspaper editor, and is currently a partner of the international corporate communications firm Brunswick.[1]

Fletcher attended Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland, and read law at Hertford College, Oxford. He later received a postgraduate diploma in journalism from University College, Cardiff. He worked for various newspapers before being appointed news editor and then deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He left to become editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1998 to 1999, then returned to be Editorial Director of Hollinger's Telegraph New Media, the internet arm of Telegraph Group Limited, from 2000 to 2003 and Editorial Director of Telegraph Group Limited from 2003 to 2005.

Kim Fletcher served as chairman of the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) between 2004 and 2024. Upon stepping down as chairman in 2024, he was named emeritus chairman.

Kim Fletcher is author of The Journalist's Handbook (Macmillan).[2] He is married to the journalist Sarah Sands, former editor of the Today programme, and former editor of the Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Fleet Street Feminist - We talk to London Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands". Harper's BAZAAR UK. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  2. ^ The Journalist's Handbook. ASIN 1405040882.
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Preceded by Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph
1995–1998 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of The Independent on Sunday
1998–1999 		Succeeded by


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