David Yelland (journalist)

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David Ian Yelland (born May 14, 1963) is a former journalist and currently a partner at Brunswick Group LLP, a global financial public relations company in London[citation needed].

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[edit] Early life

He went to the Sir John Nelthorpe School in Brigg (then in Humberside) from 1976-81.

Yelland was educated at Lanchester Polytechnic (BA Economics) and Harvard Business School (AMP). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and lists in Who's Who clubs as Savile and the RAC. He is a board member of the NSPCC. He worked on the (now defunct) North West Times in 1988.


[edit] The Sun

He was editor of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun from 1998 to 2003. Before his Sun appointment he was deputy editor and previously business editor of the New York Post which, like The Sun, was owned by Rupert Murdoch. His predecessor was Stuart Higgins and his successor was Rebekah Wade.

[edit] Personal life

Yelland was married to Tania Farrell on January 19 1996 at City Hall, New York, but the couple divorced in 2004. Yelland was adopted at birth and subsequently traced his birth father, an Irish peace campaigner, John Sheridan (b. Dublin 1924) who has since died. In childhood he suffered alopecia and after wearing a series of wigs decided to go without cover in 1995 when living in New York. He and Tania have a son, Max (Maximillian), born in September 1998.

Tania (born 30.10.67) died on September 8, 2006 at the Royal Marsden Hospital. David and Max now live in Weybridge.

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