Top UK and Ireland small business journalists to follow on Twitter (2021 edition)
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Posted: Fri 31st Dec 2021
Want to get your business in the media? Check out the new edition of our hugely popular list of the top UK and Ireland business editors, correspondents and reporters to follow on Twitter. Connect, build a relationship and pitch your story!
At the end of the post, we've listed resources to help you secure press coverage for your business.
UK national journalists
James Hurley, business journalist, The Times
Richard Fletcher, business editor, The Times
Simon Lambert, editor, This is Money
Dan Martin, freelance small business journalist and event host (Dan is Enterprise Nation's current affairs reporter)
Sarah Bridge, Financial Mail on Sunday
Rachel Rickard Straus, deputy personal finance editor, The Mail on Sunday
Chris Goodfellow, CEO, Inkwell (content agency)
Rhymer Rigby, freelance journalist for The Times, Telegraph and Financial Times
Richard Tyler, editor, Times Enterprise Network
Hannah Prevett, deputy editor, Times Enterprise Network
Rebecca Burn-Callander, freelance business journalist
Ben Chapman, business reporter, The Independent
Jane Hamilton, journalist covering careers, social mobility, consumer and property, The Sun
Joanna Partridge, business reporter, The Guardian
Joel Hills, business and economics editor, ITV News
Declan Curry, business journalist and business presenter for LBC News
Ian King, business presenter, Sky News
Paul Kelso, business correspondent, Sky News
Helen-Ann Smith, business correspondent, Sky News
Katie Prescott, business correspondent, BBC News and BBC Radio 4 Today
Ben Thompson, business presenter, BBC News
Sean Farrington, business journalist and presenter, BBC 5 Live and BBC Breakfast
Sarah Corker, business presenter and reporter, BBC News and BBC 5 Live
Will Smale, business features writer and editor, BBC News website
Simon Jack, BBC business editor
Dougal Shaw, business reporter, BBC News
Rory Cellan-Jones, technology correspondent, BBC News
Chris Fox, technology reporter, BBC News
Felicity Hannah, freelance financial journalist (contributes to BBC 5 Live Wake Up To Money, BBC Radio 4's Money Box, The Mirror, Independent and more)
Paul McNamara, business and global trade correspondent, Channel 4 News
Helia Ebrahimi, economics correspondent, Channel 4 News
Georgie Frost, finance reporter, The Times, Times Radio, Talk Radio and more
Andy Bounds, enterprise editor and north of England correspondent, Financial Times
Jeff Parsons, technology and science editor, Metro
Elizabeth Anderson, freelance finance journalist and editor (Times Money Mentor and i paper)
Chris Newlands, business and money editor, the i paper
Angelica Malin, editor-in-chief, About Time Magazine
Lisa Sykes, editor, Simple Things magazine
Clare Ellen McDonald, business editor, Computer Weekly
Hunter Ruthven, content strategist and creator, Be The Business
Yessi Bello-Perez, EMEA editor, T Brand from the New York Times
Emma Sheppard, freelance journalist for Guardian, BBC, Sifted, Wired and more
Alison Coleman, senior contributor, Forbes
Praseeda Nair, editorial director, Fresh Business Thinking
Ross Darragh, writer, Startups.co.uk
Akansha Srivastava, editor-in-chief, UK Tech News
Laura Silverman, features editor, Country Living
Benjamin Chiou, writer and managing editor, Courier
Anna Flockett, editor, Startups Magazine
Paul Jones, editor, Business Matters
Dimitri Houtart, BBC rural affairs, food and environment editor
UK local and regional journalists
Hannah Baker, South West business editor, Business Live
Dave Harvey, business correspondent, BBC Bristol
Ellie Pipe, news editor and business editor, Bristol 247
Shona Wright, deputy editor, Tech Spark (Bristol, Bath and the West of England region)
Michael Ribbeck, editor, South West Business Insider
Sion Barry, business editor, Wales Online
Brian Meechan, business correspondent and presenter, BBC Wales
Tamlyn Jones, Midlands business editor, Business Live
Kurt Jacobs, editor, Midlands Business Insider
Tom Pegden, business editor, Leicester Mercury
Sascha O’Sullivan, comment and features editor, City AM
Graeme Whitfield, business and agenda editor of The Journal Business and North East editor of Business Live
Coreena Ford, chief business writer for ncjMedia in Newcastle
Tom Houghton, North West business editor at Business Live, Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News
David Laister, Yorkshire and Humber business editor, Business Live
Greg Wright, deputy business editor, The Yorkshire Post
Margaret Canning, business editor, Belfast Telegraph
John Campbell, economics and business editor, BBC Northern Ireland
Robert Buckland, editor, Bristol Business News
Greig Cameron, Scottish business editor, The Times
Kenny Kemp, editor, Scottish Business Insider
Kristy Dorsey, business correspondent, The Herald Scotland
Scott Reid, deputy business editor, The Scotsman
Douglas Fraser, business and economy editor, BBC Scotland
Joanna Bourke, deputy business editor, Evening Standard
Simon English, senior city correspondent, Evening Standard
Sam Metcalf, The Business Desk East Midlands
Mark Gough, business correspondent, ITV News Central
Ireland journalists
Resources for getting press coverage for your business
Meet the Journalists: How to get your small business in the media
Webinar: Why you need PR and marketing to boost your business
