Charlotte Ross

Charlotte Ross is a British journalist, and was acting editor of the Evening Standard from October 2021 until October 2022. She followed Emily Sheffield as only the fourth woman to cover this job in the Kensington newsroom of the London free-sheet with a circulation of 493,000. She joined the Evening Standard in 2006 after holding various executive roles in newspapers and magazines, becoming its deputy editor in 2017 and publisher in 2020 to combine editorial and commercial strategy.

Early life Ross earned an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Glasgow.

Career In 1998, Ross acquired her newspaper skills by joining the launch team for the broadsheet Sunday Herald in Scotland. She then had executive roles at The Scotsman 2000, The Independent 2004, and at She magazine 2004. However, during 2019 and 2020 when the Evening Standard reported a pre-tax loss, it announced more than 100 job cuts in order to save the company.

In November 2022, Ross became deputy editor, features & lifestyle, at The Telegraph.