At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Associate operating in the News space. If you think a Associate is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Antonia Bonello
Associate Creative Director of BuzzFeed
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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Martin Wolf
Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator of Financial Times
Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-2011. Martin’s most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Madhumita Venkataramanan
Associate Editor of Wired Magazine
Madhu Venkataramanan is an editor at Wired UK, where she oversees the culture pages that cover the intersection of science, technology and the arts. , Madhu also writes for the features and technology sections of the magazine, with a particular focus on science and medical technologies. She has written for publications like Scientific American, Popular Science, BBC Future as well as Nature Medicine and is a researcher and consultant for WIRED Consulting. Before Wired, Madhumita was an immunologist and worked on a vaccine for the HIV virus.
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About Wired Magazine: Wired Magazine is a monthly magazine that provides an in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology.
Rowland Manthorpe
Associate Editor of Wired Magazine
Rowland Manthorpe is an editor at Wired magazine. His writing has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic and Spectator. Rowland studied History at Cambridge and Political Theory at the London School of Economics, and has been awarded the Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing by the Guardian and The Fabian Society.
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About Wired Magazine: Wired Magazine is a monthly magazine that provides an in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology.
Jane Martinson
Associate Editor (media) of The Guardian US
Associate Editor (media) at The Guardian
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About The Guardian US: The Guardian US is a British national daily newspaper that covers news, sports, business, opinion, analysis, reviews, and much more.
Jane Martinson
Associate Editor (media) of The Guardian US
Associate Editor (media) at The Guardian
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About The Guardian US: The Guardian US is a British national daily newspaper that covers news, sports, business, opinion, analysis, reviews, and much more.
Leah Selig Chauhan
Senior Associate, Online Safety of Ofcom
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About Ofcom: Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator.
Ben Wright
Associate Editor and Columnist of Telegraph Media Group
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About Telegraph Media Group: Telegraph Media Group is a multi-media news publisher behind The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers.