Bridget Rowe
British newspaper editor (1950–2021)
Bridget Rowe (16 March 1950 – 12 January 2021) was a British newspaper editor.
Life and career
Rowe worked for a succession of magazines: 19, Petticoat, Club, Look Now and Woman's World, before becoming Assistant Editor of The Sun, then editor of "Sunday", the News of the World's magazine. In 1986, Rowe became editor of Woman's Own,[1] then left to become editor of TV Times.
Rowe edited the Sunday Mirror from 1991 to 1992, then moved to edit The People. In 1993 The People published a photo of Sonia Sutcliffe taken by a freelance photographer that breached Press Complaints Commission code of conduct on privacy.[2] Her refusal to accept respsponsibility for the actions of the photographer was described by the PCC as "lamentable".[2]
In 1995, she became managing director of both newspapers, and in 1997 she returned to editing the Sunday Mirror for a year.[2] After this she served as the Director of Communications for the National Magazine Company, and later was the content director of Yava until it closed in 2001.[3][2] She was a panelist on the first series of Loose Women in 1999.
A friend[4] of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, Rowe registered as the leader of Libertas UK with the United Kingdom Electoral Commission in December 2008,[4] in order to prevent Declan Ganley's political party Libertas from fielding candidates in the UK's European Parliament elections in 2009 under that name.[4] Rowe worked as public relations chief for the businessman and UKIP donor Arron Banks.[5]
Rowe died from COVID-19 in Farnborough on 12 January 2021, at the age of 70, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[6]
References
- ^ Hugh Thompson, "Dallasty and Glynis recipe", The Guardian, 7 July 1986
- ^ a b c d "Bridget Rowe, award-winning tabloid editor with her finger on the populist pulse – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2021. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ^ "Inside Story: The ex-editors' files", The Independent, 9 May 2005
- ^ a b c "Libertas faces UK electoral hurdle over party name" Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Times, Friday, January 23, 2009
- ^ Syal, Rajeev (4 October 2014). "Ukip donor Arron Banks shows tax cheque sent to HMRC for £1.86m". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Trailblazing journalist and Fleet Street legend Bridget Rowe dies aged 70". Daily Mirror. 16 January 2021.
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| Preceded by | Editor of the Sunday Mirror 1991–1992 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Bill Hagerty | Editor of The People 1992–1996 | Succeeded by Len Gould |
| Preceded by | Editor of the Sunday Mirror 1997–1998 | Succeeded by |
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