Eleanor Mills Biography
Eleanor Mills is a British journalist who has formerly worked for The Sunday Times and The Times. She was the Sunday Times editorial director and magazine’s editor until March 2020. Mills worked for Times Newspapers for 22 years.
How old is Eleanor Mills? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1970 in Britain.
Eleanor Mills Family – Education
She is the first married daughter of corporate solicitor David Mills and the granddaughter of Kenneth Mackenzie Donald Mills, and Patricia Frances Alice Lloyd. She attended St Paul’s Girls’ School and Westminster School. Mills studied English at Oxford’s Brasenose College beginning in 1989. Mills’ first employment after graduating from Oxford University in 1992 was on Tank World magazine, a periodical that covered liquid transportation. She later worked as the only female trainee in the newsroom at The Observer.
Eleanor Mills Husband
She is married to James Harvey Howe V. The couple married on September 7 in Washington at St. John’s Episcopal Church Georgetown Parish. Rev. Sarah Duggin, an Episcopal priest, officiated. The couple has two daughters.
Eleanor Mills Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Eleanor Mills Career
Mills’ first employment after graduating from Oxford University in 1992 was on Tank World magazine, a periodical that covered liquid transportation. She later worked as the only female trainee in the newsroom at The Observer. Mills came to The Sunday Times from The Daily Telegraph, where she was the youngest-ever features editor at the age of 26.
She took over as editor of The Times’ Saturday edition in August 2008, replacing George Brock, but returned to the Sunday edition as associate editor and writer less than a year later. She has been the Sunday Times’ editorial director since June 2012, and she took over as editor of The Sunday Times Magazine in September 2015, succeeding Sarah Baxter. Mills stepped down from her positions as Sunday Times magazine editor and editorial director in March 2020.
Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women, co-edited with Kira Cochrane, was published as Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists in the United States. Mills took over as chair of the Women in Journalism lobbying group from Jane Martinson at the end of 2013. She stepped down in 2021, and was replaced by Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips.
Mills will launch Noon, an online media platform and community for middle-aged women, on March 8, 2021, International Women’s Day. “Older women are very much the demographic the mainstream media forgot; one of the last bastions of diversity,” she wrote for the Society of Editors in a blog post. She resigned from the Society of Editors’ Board in late March 2021 in response to the organization’s (now-former) Executive Director’s claim that the British media was not racist. When it was released earlier in the month, Mills and others contested it.