Jolyon Connell

Jolyon Connell is a former Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times journalist who left Fleet Street to found The Week in 1995.[1][2]

Education

Connell has a first class degree in English from the University of St Andrews and an honorary doctorate from the same university.[3]

Career

Connell first began working in journalist in the 1970s as a trainee reporter at The Press and Journal in Aberdeen.[4] He later travelled to London for several months to research and publish a book called Fraud: the Amazing Career of Dr Savundra.[4] Several months later he was offered a job at the Sunday Times.[4]

Connell's other business interests include MoneyWeek,[1] a British financial magazine which he founded in 2000. In 2010 he founded Connell guides, a publishing company specialising in guide books for GCSE and A Level Literature students.

References
  1. "Feeding a taste for bite-size news". guardian.co.uk. 17 April 2005. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  2. Narwan, Gurpreet (7 June 2021). "Dennis Publishing decides The Week has had its day". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  3. http://www.connellguidesthetempest.co.uk/about_the_author/%5B%5D
  4. "My Greatest Mistake: Jolyon Connell, Editor of 'The Week' Magazine". The Independent. 1 July 2002. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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