Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft
Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a British journalist and life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe. She left this role upon becoming a peer. She previously served as editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism. Career Wheatcroft was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University (LLB, Law, 1972). She and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine Retail Week in 1988 and Wheatcroft served as its consultant editor until 1992. She has worked on several national newspapers, including the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. After serving as Deputy City Editor of The Mail on Sunday, she was appointed Business and City Editor of The Times in 1997 and then as editor of The Sunday Telegraph in March 2006. Wheatcroft won the Wincott Senior Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 and in 2003 was London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year. She resigned as editor of The Sunday Telegraph on 4 September 2007, being replaced by Ian MacGregor, who until then had been