Sue Douglas

Susan Margaret Douglas (born 29 January 1957) is a British media executive and former newspaper editor.

Early life Born in London, she was educated at Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston. After graduating with a first-class honours degree in physiology and biochemistry from Southampton University, she began her career in 1978 with management consultants Andersen Consulting. she became a freelance executive. In 2008, she joined literary agency PFD as a director, and engineered the management buyout by Andrew Neil. The acquisition ultimately led to Douglas being forced to leave. Consultancy deals with HarperCollins, Future publishing and television company, Luxe.tv and Lingospot followed.

Douglas, as part of a consortium, was reported in January 2013 to have been in talks with Trinity Mirror to purchase a majority stake in the Sunday People and rebrand it as The News of the People (Douglas had attempted to buy the News of the World after its closure). In May 2013, these plans were reported to have been dropped, although Phoenix Ventures, her company, remained in talks about other collaborations.

Early in the following month it emerged that she was to head a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Mirror called Sunday Brands. The leading publication would be the Sunday People, with other titles from the group, but these would not include the Sunday Mirror. The Sunday Brands was soon dropped, with Douglas' role changing to offering a digital version of the Sunday People. In the end, the new website, launched in November 2013, did not meet Trinity Mirror's financial targets and closed in January 2014 when Douglas left the company.

Personal life Douglas married historian Niall Ferguson in 1994. They separated in 2010, and divorced in 2011. They have three children together.