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Andrew Neil is a publisher, editor, writer, broadcaster, public speaker and business consultant on media matters working out of London, New York, Dubai and France.
He is currently Publisher (chief executive and editor-in-chief) of The Press Holdings Media Group, owners of The Spectator, The Business and Apollo, the arts magazine.
Neil also has a strong track record in broadcast media: he currently anchors four editions of the Daily Politics on BBC2 every week, the award-winning This Week on BBC1 every Thursday and Straight Talk with Andrew Neil on BBC News 24.
During his career Neil has been UK Editor of The Economist, Editor of The Sunday Times, Executive Chairman of Sky Television, Executive Editor of Fox Television News of America, a well-known anchorman on British television and a regular political/economic commentator on all the American networks and news channels.
Under his editorship, The Sunday Times exposed the full details of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, revealed the secret link between Libya and Britain’s coalminers’ union, published Peter Wright’s Spycatcher (for which the British government tried to jail him and published Andrew Morton’s controversial book on Princess Diana. The newspaper became famous for its fierce anti-Establishment views, pro-market economy stance and campaigning, investigative style. By the early 1990s The Sunday Times was selling 1.3m - over 150,000 more than its two nearest competitors combined.
Who’s Who lists his recreations as dining out in London, New York, the south of France and Aspen, where he has also been know to ski. He is also a keen cyclist. Under clubs he lists the Royal Automobile Club. |
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