Richard Addis

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Richard Addis (born 1956) is a British journalist and former editor of the Daily Express newspaper. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and a former novice Anglican monk.

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.

He left the FT in February 2006 to launch his own media business.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of York University in Toronto.

He lives in London with the British actress Helen Schlesinger. He has four children.

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Preceded by
Sir Nicholas Lloyd
Editor of The Daily Express
March 1995 - 1998
Succeeded by
Rosie Boycott
Preceded by
William Thorsell
Editor of The Globe and Mail
March 1999 - 2002
Succeeded by
Edward Greenspon