Tuesday 23 October 2007

Media 100 Most Influential People


23. Rebekah Wade

Rebekah Wade (born 27 May 1968 in Cheshire, England) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. She is currently editor of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper. She is married to the actor Ross Kemp.

She joined the News of the World in 1989 as a secretary, and rose through the ranks, first as a feature writer for its 'Sunday' magazine, before eventually becoming the paper's deputy editor.

In 1998 she transferred to the News of the World's weekday counterpart, The Sun, to become its deputy editor.

She reportedly attempted to persuade David Yelland to get rid of the Page Three Girls.

This was unsuccessful, and almost a decade later, Page Three is still very much alive. She then returned to the News of the World in 2000 as editor; at the time, she was the youngest editor of a national British newspaper.