Richard Addis

Richard Addis (born 23 August 1956) is a British journalist and former editor of the "Daily Express" newspaper. He is a former novice Anglican monk.

Addis was educated at West Downs School, Rugby School and Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. and an M.A..

He started his first staff job on newspapers in 1985 as a reporter on Londoner's Diary of the London "Evening Standard". He went on to become Editor of Londoner's Diary and Assistant Editor (Features). In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Editor of "The Sunday Telegraph". In 1991 he was appointed Executive Editor at the "Daily Mail". In 1995, he was appointed editor of the "Daily Express" and a year later became editor-in-chief of the "Daily" and "Sunday Express". He left the "Express" in 1998 to move to Canada as editor of the "The Globe and Mail" in Toronto, a post he held from July 1999-July 2002.

In 2002 he returned to London as Assistant Editor at the "Financial Times". Throughout his time at the FT he was design editor and for two years was also weekend editor, in charge of the paper's Saturday edition.

Richard Addis left the "FT" in February 2006 to launch his own media business, Shakeup Media. He is a member of the Board of Governors of York University in Toronto, but lives in London with the British actress Helen Schlesinger and has four children, Theo, Katharine, Beatrice and Ferdinand.

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* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1698242,00.html Richard Addis to leave FT]
* http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2000/summer/319/
* http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060201/ai_n16036828
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/services/site/history.html History of The Globe and Mail]