An Interview with John Witherow ex-editor of The Times by Hope Baker

Recently I was lucky enough to sit down on a Zoom call with John Witherow, a journalist and newspaper editor with a career spanning over 45 years. Over the course of our half hour chat I hoped to gain an insight into his time running a national newspaper and his knowledge of the potential difficulties involved in political reporting. Witherow started out at Reuters News Agency, where he worked briefly before joining The Times three years later in 1980. The publication is one of Britain’s l