Philippa Kennedy is currently working in the UAE as a senior features writer and columnist for The National, the English-language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi.
She has been Chairman of the London Press Club Ball since 2005 when she revived the event as a fund-raiser for The Journalists’ Charity. So far the press club ball has made around £200,000 for the charity, as well as raising the profile of the LPC.
Philippa Kennedy
Philippa was editor of the trade ‘bible’
Press Gazette from 1998 to 2002, after a career in Fleet Street spanning 25 years that also embraced television and radio. A product of the
Daily Mirror training scheme, she worked for
The Sun for seven years as a reporter before joining the
Daily Express where she stayed for 14 years, becoming the paper’s first woman news editor and later the paper’s chief feature writer and columnist. She also writes a regular column in
Women & Golf. She became a director of the London Press Club in 2001 and was elected Deputy Chairman in 2003. One of the original panel of the popular lunchtime show
Loose Women, she also presented the media show –
Media Brief – for BBC News 24 and BBC1, a three-part history of Fleet Street –
Out of Print – and a two parter on the regional press –
Read All About It – for BBC Radio 4.
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2003, for services to journalism.
