Patsy Chapman

Patsy Chapman (born 3 May 1948) is a former British newspaper editor .

Chapman grew up in Romford and worked on the magazine Boyfriend before becoming a reporter with the Romford Times . She then joined The Sun and was gradually promoted to become Deputy Editor. In 1988, she swapped jobs with Wendy Henry to become Editor of the News of the World . ^[1]

In 1990, Chapman chaired the group which drew up the code of conduct that the Press Complaints Commission subsequently enforced. ^[2] She was then a member of the first Commission. ^[3]

Chapman stepped down as editor of News of the World in 1993 due to illness. ^[4]

References [ edit ]

^ Jan Moir "Queen of the juicy stories", The Guardian , 13 January 1993
^ " The Press Complaints Commission Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine ", Law Society Gazette , 23 October 1991
^ Georgina Henry, "Two tabloid editors on press complaints 'jury'", The Guardian , 28 December 1990
^ Sophie Morris, " Inside Story: The ex-editors' files ", The Independent , 9 May 2005

Media offices
Preceded by ?	Deputy Editor of The Sun 1986–1988	Succeeded by Wendy Henry
Preceded by Wendy Henry	Editor of the News of the World 1988–1994	Succeeded by Piers Morgan

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[1] Jan Moir "Queen of the juicy stories", The Guardian , 13 January 1993

[2] " The Press Complaints Commission Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine ", Law Society Gazette , 23 October 1991

[3] Georgina Henry, "Two tabloid editors on press complaints 'jury'", The Guardian , 28 December 1990

[4] Sophie Morris, " Inside Story: The ex-editors' files ", The Independent , 9 May 2005

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v t e Editors of the Daily Herald , The Sun and the News of the World
Daily Herald	1912: William H. Seed 1912: Roland Kenney 1913: Charles Lapworth 1913: George Lansbury 1922: W. P. Ryan 1922: Hamilton Fyfe 1926: William Mellor 1931: W. H. Stevenson 1936: Francis Williams 1940: Percy Cudlipp 1953: Sydney Elliott 1957: Douglas Machray 1960: John Beaven 1962: Sydney Jacobson
The Sun	1964: Sydney Jacobson 1965: Dick Dinsdale 1969: Larry Lamb 1972: Bernard Shrimsley 1975: Larry Lamb 1981: Kelvin MacKenzie 1994: Stuart Higgins 1998: David Yelland 2003: Rebekah Wade 2009: Dominic Mohan 2013: David Dinsmore 2015: Tony Gallagher 2020: Victoria Newton
News of the World	1843: John Browne Bell 1855: John William Bell 1877: Walter John Bell and Adolphus William Bell 1891: Emsley Carr 1941: David Percy Davies 1946: Robert Skelton 1947: Arthur Waters 1953: Reg Cudlipp 1960: Stafford Somerfield 1970: Cyril Lear 1974: Peter Stephens 1975: Bernard Shrimsley 1980: Kenneth Donlan 1981: Barry Askew 1981: Derek Jameson 1984: Nicholas Lloyd 1985: David Montgomery 1987: Wendy Henry 1988: Patsy Chapman 1993: Stuart Higgins 1994: Piers Morgan 1995: Phil Hall 2000: Rebekah Wade 2003: Andy Coulson 2007: Colin Myler