1. John Witherow was born on 20 January 1952 and is a former editor of British newspaper The Times.
12 Facts About John Witherow
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John Witherow migrated to Britain in the mid 1950s before moving to Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1950s.
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John Witherow returned to Britain in the early 1960s, where he attended Bedford School and the University of York.
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John Witherow moved to The Sunday Times in 1983 under the editorship of Andrew Neil.
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John Witherow was made acting editor after the departure of Neil in 1994.
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John Witherow was confirmed in the job the following year.
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In early 2013, John Witherow was made editor of The Times in succession to James Harding, despite opposition from the newspaper's independent directors who objected to the fact Rupert Murdoch had not consulted them.
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On 27 September 2022 John Witherow stood down as editor of The Times to become chair of Times Newspapers.
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Early in John Witherow's editorship at The Sunday Times the paper published false claims that Labour politician Michael Foot was a KGB agent.
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In 2016, as editor of The Times, John Witherow failed to cover the Hillsborough stadium disaster inquest verdict on its front page.
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John Witherow later admitted this had been a mistake, however.
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John Witherow has three children from his former marriage to Sarah Linton.