William Lewis (journalist)

William Lewis (born 1969) is a British newspaper publishing executive. Earlier in his career he was known as a journalist and then editor.

Early career he worked for the Mail on Sunday and the Financial Times, before joining the Telegraph group in which he quickly gained promotion. Lewis was the editor of The Daily Telegraph from 2006 (until 2009) and from 2007 editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group. He left the Telegraph group in May 2010 over a disagreement with senior colleagues. Taking up a post as general manager of News International in September 2010, he joined the Management and Standards Commission (MSC) in February 2011, and became the Chief Creative Officer of the 'new' News Corporation in February 2013. In 2014, Lewis was named the CEO of Dow Jones.

He attended a comprehensive school in London, Whitefield School, before studying Politics and Economics at Bristol University, where he wrote for the student newspaper, Epigram. He completed a postgraduate diploma in Periodical Journalism at City University.

After graduation, he joined the Mail on Sunday as a business reporter in 1991. He later moved to the Financial Times, working there for eight years. His last job at the FT was news editor, having been the Mergers and Acquisitions Editor based in New York. In 1999 he broke the story that Exxon was merging with Mobil, then the biggest industrial merger. Lewis was business editor of The Sunday Times from 2002 to 2005.

Lewis joined the Daily Telegraph in 2005, as City editor and joint deputy editor. Lewis was appointed editor of the Daily Telegraph on 9 October 2006, becoming the youngest ever editor of the newspaper. Within a year of his appointment he was made editor-in-chief of the combined titles after working to integrate the publishing process across the group.

As editor and editor-in-chief, also ultimately responsible for The Sunday Telegraph and the telegraph.co.uk website. he oversaw the Telegraph's investigation into the parliamentary expenses scandal in May 2009. The expenses investigations scoops, all closely associated with the journalist Heather Brooke, saw The Daily Telegraph honoured at the British Press Awards as "Newspaper of the Year", with Lewis being named "Journalist of the Year".

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