About Charles McGhee

Charles McGhee is an award-winning senior newspaper editor with more than 35 years experience in the UK media industry.

He launched his consultancy in 2009 after 10 years with the Herald & Times Group in Glasgow. During that period he served as editor of The Herald, Scotland’s most influential quality daily newspaper; edited The Herald's sister title, the Evening Times, for six years, relaunching the paper in 2000 with a radical, campaigning agenda, which attracted a series of Scottish and UK media awards; and was consultant editor for the launch of the Sunday Herald. Charles has also held senior editorial executive roles on national newspapers such as the Daily Record, the Sunday Mail and the Sunday Times. He spent his early journalism career with the BBC.

He is a past president of the UK Society of Editors, which campaigns on media standards and press freedom, is a former member of Britain's press watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission, and is an Honorary Professor in Journalism and Media at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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