Victoria Newton

Victoria Newton is Editor-in-Chief of The Sun, creating the journalism that engages more than 26 million people every month across print, digital and video platforms for the UK’s most widely read and influential commercial newsbrand.

Under Victoria’s leadership campaigning and public interest journalism has thrived with the brand winning multiple awards for investigations holding the powerful to account - including the investigation into Huw Edwards, Matt Hancock’s affair with his aide breaking covid rules, exposing war crimes in Russia and highlighting severe security and social failings.

Holding public bodies to account and standing up for readers, Victoria has run campaigns highlighting the impact of the cost of living crisis on readers including the increased use of baby banks, as well as her long running campaign to strengthen the law on domestic abuse which has had a genuine impact on people’s lives.

Leading a team of more than 800 people, Victoria was tasked with modernising the newsroom, and has transformed a legacy print tabloid into an international digital-first, video-focused newsbrand.

She has encouraged and recognised female talent in the newsroom, with a raft of women now in senior editorial positions, and has offered more apprenticeship places for under-represented groups than before.