Patsy Chapman

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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 in early 1994 due to illness.^[4]

References

↑ Jan Moir "Queen of the juicy stories", The Guardian, 13 January 1993
↑ "The Press Complaints Commission", 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

v t e Editors of The Sun, the Daily Herald and the News of the World

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

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

News of the World	1843: Henry Drake Breun 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

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